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CONNECTICUT 

DURING THE GREAT WORLD WAR 

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August 15. 1914 — November II. 1918 

WITH SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS 

SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE. 

TO AND INCLUDING JUNE. 1919. 



COMPILED H^' 

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(Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel) 
STATE REGENT 

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WITH SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS 

SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE. 

TO AND INCLUDING JUNE, 1919. 



COMPILED BY 

ELIZABETH BARNEY BUEL 

(Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel) 

STATE REGENT 

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State Regent 

MRS. JOHN LAIDLAW BUEL 
Litchfield 

State Viee-Regent 

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL 
Southington 

Recording Secretary 

MRS. STARR C. BARNUM 
16 Terrace Place, Danbury 

Corresponding Secretary 

MRS. LEANDER K. SHIPMAN 
160 Hempstead St., New London 

Consulting Registrar 

MRS. JAMES K. CROFUT 
Simsbury 

Treasurer of Utility Fund 

MISS JENNIE LOOMIS 
Windsor 

Councilors 

MRS. WILLIAM B. GLOVER 
Fairfield 

MRS. KARL P. HARRINGTON 
Middletown 

MRS. CHRISTIAN SWARZ 
Norwalk 

MRS. FREDERICK A. STRONG 
Bridgeport 

MISS FLORENCE S. M. CROFUT 
Hartford 

MRS. H. MARLi BARBER 
Seymour 

MRS. GEORGE W. TINGLEY 

Mystic 

(Died in Office, June, 1917) 

MISS M. JOSEPHINE DICKINSON 

(Appointed to fill the unexpired term) 

Mystic 

Vice-President General, N. S. D. A. R. from Connecticut 

MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD MINOR 
Waterford 



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State Regent 

MRS. JOHN LAIDLAW BUEL 
Litchfield 



State Vice-Regent 

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSBLL 
Southington 



Recording Secretary 

MRS. STARR C. BARNUM 
16 Terrace Place, Danbury 

Corresponding Secretary 

MRS. LEANDER K. SHIPMAN 
160 Hempstead St., New London 



Consulting Registrar 

MRS. JAMES K. CROFUT 
Simsbury 

Treasurer of Utility Fund 

MISS JENNIE LOOMIS 
Windsor 



Coiincilors 

MRS. FREDERICK A. STRONG 
Bridgeport 

MISS FLORENCE S. M. CROFUT 
Hartford 

MRS. H. MARIA BARBER 
Seymour 

MISS M. JOSEPHINE DICKINSON 
Mystic 

MISS MARY E. LAW 
New Haven 

MRS. AMOS BROWNING 
Norwich 

MRS. WILLIAM INGRAHAM 
Bristol 



Vice-President General, N. S. D. A. R. from Connecticut 

MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD MINOR 
Waterford 



WAR RELIEF SERVICE COMMITTEE 
CONNECTICUT DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

1917-1918 
THE FIFTY CHAPTER REGENTS OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES 



Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, State Regent, Chairman Litchfield 

Miss Ellen Langdon, Regent, Abi Humiston Chapter Plymouth 

Mrs. Arnold Eberg, Abigail Phelps Chapter Simsbury 

Mrs. G. F. Davis, Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth Chapter Windsor 

Mrs. Frederic Bill, Anna Warner Bailey Chapter Groton 

Mrs. Arthur M. Brown, Anne Brewster Fanning Chapter Jewett City 

Mrs. E. Frank Bugbee, Regent, Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter Willimantic 

Mrs. E. H. Lillibridge, Regent, Deborah Avery Putnam Chapter Plainfield 

Mrs. George B. Bunnell, Regent, Dorothy Ripley Chapter Southport 

Miss Mary L. Holbrook, Regent, Elizabeth Clarke Hull Chapter Ansonia 

Mrs. George A. Vaughan, Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter Putnam 

Mrs. Edward E. Nourse, Emma Hart Willard Chapter Berlin 

Miss Mary S. Whittlesey, Regent, Esther Stanley Chapter New Britain 

Mrs. William B. Glover, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter ... Fairfield 

Mrs. Robert A. France, Eve Lear Chapter New Haven 

Mrs. Channing M. Huntington, Faith Trumbull Chapter Norwich 

Mrs. Newton A. Dickinson, Regent, Fanny Ledyard Chapter Mystic 

Mrs. Nicholas M. Pond, Regent, Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter Milfora 

Mrs. Elliott B. Bronson, Regent, Green Woods Chapter Winsted 

IVIiss Amanda P. Weed, Regent, Hannah Benedict Carter Chapter ....New Canaan 

Mrs. Charles W. Fitch, Regent, Hannah Woodruff Chapter Southington 

Mrs. Frederic Wersebe, Regent, Judea Chapter Washington 

Mrs. James T. Case, Regent, Katherine Gaylord Chapter Bristol 

Miss Emma C. Doolittle, Lady Fenwick Chapter Cheshire 

Miss Cora A. Marsh, Regent, Lucretia Shaw Chapter New London 

Mrs. Elsie R. Chapin, Marana Norton Brooks Chapter Torrington 

Miss Anna M. Olmsted, Regent, Martha Pitkin Wolcott Chapter East Hartford 

Mrs. Hubert M. Sedgwick, Regent, Mary Clap Wooster Chapter New Haven 

Mrs. William S. Plumb, Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter Litchfield 

Mrs. Orville Rector, Mary Silliman Chapter Bridgeport 

Mrs. Charles F. Beardsley, Regent, Mary Wooster Chapter Danbury 

Mrs. Charles B. Everitt, Regent, Melicent Porter Chapter Waterbury 

Mrs. Juliet H. Williams, Regent, Nathan Hale Memorial Chapter, East Haddam 

Mrs. George R. Barnum, Norwalk Chapter Norwalk 

Mrs. Charles E. House, Regent, Orford Parish Chapter Manchester 

Miss Josephine Barbour, Regent, I*hoebe Humphrey Chapter Collinsville 

Mrs. Charles F. Taylor, Regent, Putnam Hill Chapter Greenwich 

Mrs. Porter M. Cassidy, Roger Sherman Chapter New Milford 

Mrs. William C. Homan, Ruth Hart Chapter Meriden 

Mrs. Phineas H. Ingalls, Ruth Wyllys Chapter Hartford 

Miss Ruth M. Talcott, Regent, Sabra Trumbull Chapter Rockville 

Mrs. S. W. Buckingham, Regent, Sarah Ludlow Chapter Seymour 

Miss Ruth A. Downs, Regent, Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter Derby 

Mrs. Amos Culver, Regent, Sarah Rogers Chapter Naugatuck 

Mrs. William P. Barber, Regent, Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter . . West Hartford 
Mrs. George S. Decker, Regent, Sarah Whitman Trumbull Chapter . . . . Watertown 
Mrs. Milton S. Warren, Regent, Sarah Williams Danielson Chapter . . . .Danielson 

Miss Alena F. Owen, Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter SufHeld 

Mrs. Joel M. Anderson, Regent, Stamford Chapter Stamford 

Mrs. J. Q. Thayer, Susan Carrington Clarke Chapter Meriden 

Miss Elizabeth F. Patten, Regent, Wadsworth Chapter Middletown 



WAR RELIEF SERVICE COMMITTEE. 
CONNECTICUT DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

1918-1919. 
THE FIFTY CHAPTER REGENTS OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES. 



Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, State Regent, Chairman Litchfield 

Miss Ellen Langdon, Regent, Abi Humiston Chapter Plymouth 

Mrs Arnold Eberg, Abigail Phelps Chapter Simsbury 

Mrs. G. F. Davis, Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth Chapter Windsor 

Mrs. Frederic Bill, Anna Warner Bailey Chapter Groton 

Mrs. Arthur M. Brown, Anne Brewster Fanning Chapter Jewett City 

Mrs. E. Frank Bugbee, Regent, Anne Wood Elderbin Chapter Willimantic 

Mrs. E. H. Lillibridge. Regent, Deborah Avery Putnam Chapter Plainfield 

Mrs. George B. Bunnell, Regent, Dorothy Ripley Chapter Southport 

Miss Mary L. Holbrook, Regent, Elizabeth Clarke Hull Chapter Ansonia 

Mrs. E. M. Warner, Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter Putnam 

Mrs. Edward E. Nourse, Emma Hart Willard Chapter Berlin 

Miss Mary S. Whittlesey, Regent, Esther Stanley Chapter New Britain 

Mrs. Vv^illiam B. Glover, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter Fairfield 

Mrs. Robert A. France, Eve Lear Chapter New Haven 

Mrs. Channing M. Huntington, Faith Trumbull Chapter Norwich 

Mrs. Newton A. Dickinson, Regent, Fanny Ledyard Chapter Mystic 

Mrs. Nicholas M. Pond, Regent, Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter Milford 

Mrs. Elliott B. Bronson, Regent, Green Woods Chapter Winsted 

Miss Amanda P. Weed, Regent, Hannah Benedict Carter Chapter New Canaan 

Mrs. Charles W. Fitch, Regent, Hannah Woodruff Chapter Southington 

Mrs. Frederic Wersebe, Regent, Judea Chapter Washington 

Mrs. James T. Case, Regent, Katherine Gaylord Chapter Bristol 

Miss Emma C. Doolittle, Lady Fenwick Chapter Cheshire 

Mrs. Sidney H. Miner, Regent, Lucretia Shaw Chapter New London 

Mrs. Elsie R. Chapin, Marana Norton Brooks Chapter Torrington 

Miss Anna M. Olmsted, Regent, Martha Pitkin Wolcott Chapter East Hartford 

Mrs. Hubert M. Sedgwick, Regent, Mary Clap Wooster Chapter New Haven 

Mrs. William S. Plumb, Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter Litchfield 

Mrs. Orville Rector, Mary Silliman Chapter Bridgeport 

Mrs. James S. Gregory, Mary Wooster Chapter Danbury 

Mrs. Charles B. Everitt, Regent, Melicent Porter Chapter Waterbury 

Mrs. Juliet H. Williams, Nathan Hale Memorial Chapter East Haddani 

Mrs. George R. Barnum, Norwalk Chapter Norwalk 

Mrs. F. A. Verplank, Regent, Orford Parish Chapter Manchester 

Miss Josephine Barbour, Regent, Phoebe Humphrey Chapter Collinsville 

Mrs. Josephine K. B. Porter, Regent, Putnam Hill Chapter Greenwich 

Mrs. Porter M. Cassidy, Roger Sherman Chapter New Milford 

Mrs. William C. HoiTian, Ruth Hart Chapter Meriden 

Mrs. Phineas H. Ingalls, Ruth Wyllys Chapter Hartford 

Mrs. Charles O. Britton (Ruth Talcott), Sabra Trumbull Chapter Rockville 

Mrs. S. W. Buckingham, Regent, Sarah Ludlow Chapter Seymour 

Miss Ruth A. Downs, Regent, Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter Derby 

Mrs. George P. Young, Regent, Sarah Rogers Chapter Naugatuck 

Mrs. William P. Barber, Regent, Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter. . . .West Hartford 

Miss Ella S. Lockwood, Sarah Whitman Trumbull Chapter Watertown 

Mrs. Milton S. Warren, Regent, Sarah Williams Danielson Chapter Danielson 

Miss Alena F. Ovv'-en, Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter Sulfield 

Mrs. Joel M. Anderson, Stamford Chapter Stamford 

Mrs. J. Q. Thayer, Susan 'Carrington Clarke Chapter Meriden 

Miss Elizabeth F. Patten, Wadsv^orth Chapter Middletown 



WAR WORK CONNECTICUT DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN 

REVOLUTION. 

BEFORE AND DURING THE PARTICIPATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE 

WORLD WAR. 

August, 1914, to April, 1919. 



Before the United States declared war, April 6th, 191 7, the Daughters of the 
American Revolution in Connecticut were devoting themselves chiefly to the 
work of assisting the Red Cross and National Surgical Dressings Committee, 
sending comforts to our men on the Mexican border during the brief flurry with 
Mexico, and raising money for the Commission for Relief in Belgium and other 
relief agencies. 

When our own country at last awoke to its duty and plunged into the fight to 
save li])erly and civilization, the Connecticut Daughters were among the first to 
mobilize for war relief service. 

Immediately after diplomatic relations with Germany had been severed, in 
February, 191 7, the State Regent sent out to the chapters the following call to 
service and a few days later, pledged their loyal support to President Wilson 
juid to Governor Holcomb. 



A CALL TO THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

IN CONNECTICUT. 



Chapier Regents and Members: 

The President of the United States has severed diplomatic relations with Ger- 
many. Our country stands for democracy and liberty, for law, order and the 
principles of humanity, for which our forefathers fought and our foremothers 
worked and prayed. If we are called to the supreme sacrifice of war in their 
defense, the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution will be found 
in the forefront of service for "Home and Country." It would be a slur upon 
their patriotism to imagine otherwise. Home-preparedness is the solemn duty 
of the hour. 

Every Chapter, therefore, in the state should be a center of activity in the pro- 
motion of preparedness, taking up that form of efifort best suited to its op- 
portunities. 

I therefore urge each Chapter to redouble its efiforts to increase the member- 
ship of the American Red Cross, sending as many names as possible to our State 
Chairman, Mrs. C. L. F. Robinson, 1161 Prospect Avenue, Hartford. 

I earnestly recommend, in addition, that each Chapter Regent appoint a Red 
Cross Committee in her Chapier through which it may co-operate with the Amer- 
ican Red Cross in response to the appeal just issued from Red Cross headquar- 
ters in Washington. 

Donations of money should be sent to our State Treasurer, Miss Jennie 
Loomis, Windsor, to be by her forwarded to the American Red Cross. 

The spirit of '76 bids us rally, one and all, regardless of creed or party, to the 
support of the President, gladly and loyally upholding him in his stand for the 
honor of the nation, for the just defense of its citizens in the peaceful exercise 
of their rights, and for the maintenance of humanity and civilization in the world. 

Sincerely yours, 

ELIZABETH BARNEY BUEL, 

State Regent. 



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LETTERS TO AND FROM GOVERNOR HOLCOMB. 



Litchfield, Connecticut, Feb. 8, 191 7. 
His Excellency, Marcus H. Holcomh, Governor of Connecticut: 

My Dear Governor Holcomb — The 5,000 Connecticut Daughters of the Amer- 
ican Revolution offer to you, to their state and to their country the fullest meas- 
ure of devoted service. 

The spirit of our forefathers and foremothers is awake and responds to the 
call as in the days of '76. 

We will uphold to the best of our ability the honor of our state in whatever 
may be in store for us and we stand back of you in whatever you may do to keep 
Connecticut in her accustomed place in the forefront of service and sacrifice for 
our country. 

Sincerely yours, 

(Signed) ELIZABETH BARNEY BULL. 

State Regent, Connecticut D. A. R. 



State of Connecticut 
Executive Chambers, 

Hartford, February 9, 1917. 

Airs. John L. Buel, State Regent, 

Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. 

My Dear Mrs. Buel — Your letter of the 8th inst. is received, and it gives me 
great pleasure to read the expression of the sentiments of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, which of course is no more than I would expect of them. 
It is time that we took an inventory of the state to find out how prevalent those 
sentiments are in 191 7. 

I remember that we had copperheads in the Civil War, and according to his- 
tL-ry, we had Tories in the Revolutionary War, and I suppose that we will find 
what corresponds to them at the present time, but it is well to take an inventory 
and find out how numerous they are. 

Again thanking you for your letter, I am, 

Sincerely yours, 
(Signed) M. H. Holcomb. 



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TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT WILSON. 



Litchfield, Connecticut, February 9, 1917. 
pi'^oodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America. 

The Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution, 5,000 strong, endorse 
your stand for our sovereignty as a nation, for law and order and the principles 
of humanity for which our forefathers fought and our foremothers worked and 
prayed. 

We, their descendants, uphold you to the furthest limit of sacrifice in main- 
taining the honor of the nation and protecting its citizens in the peaceful ex- 
ercise of their just rights. 

Call upon us for whatever service we can render. 

(Signed) ELIZABETH BARNEY BULL, 

State Regent, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution 

The President's reply was an engraved card, received next day, as follows.- 

The White House, 
Washington. 

The President is very grateful for the generous message of confidence and ap- 
probation which you sent him, and he wishes to express his genuine apprecia- 
tion of your support. 

From all over the state the chapters responded with loyalty and enthusiasm 
to the country's call. They responded both as chapters and as individuals from 
that time onwards to every call of the government and to every need which came 
within their power and province to fill. They went "over the top" in every 
"drive" for funds and supplies in which they were expected to take part. They 
accomplished a vast volume of war work while at the same time — and this is to 
their everlasting credit — maintaining all lines of their regular work (excepting the 
erection of memorials) without decrease in expenditure of money or of efifort. 
They simply added their war work to their usual activities and carried this 
double burden in the belief that the maintenance of their usual educational, pa- 
triotic and social service agencies assumed the importance of war measures and 
should not be neglected. 

When our 26th Continental Congress in April, 19 17, ordered the appointment 
of the National Society's War Relief Service Committee, the State Regent at 
once organized our State War Relief Service Committee in accordance with its 
instructions. These were to appoint every chapter regent as a member of this 
committee with the State Regent as chairman, the chapter regent to appoint her 
own substitute if she preferred. The committee was to act for the duration of 
the war. 

The National Society organized and suggested work by means of bulletins sent 
out by our National War Relief Service Committee to the State Regents for dis- 
tribution to the chapters. The first to be sent out were questionnaires for regis- 
tration for service, whereby the Society sought to ascertain its working strength. 

These registration blanks were issued to the chapters, enough for every mem- 
ber, as soon as they were received, in June, 1917, for our then 5,216 members. A 
total of 1,965 or 37.67% of our membership were returned filled out, from 46 



out of our 50 chapters. (See pages 20 and 21 for record of returns tabulated by- 
chapters). They were sent to Memorial Continental Hall to be filed and 
tabulated. 

The complete set of National Society Bulletins which followed, together with 
accompanying letters to the chapters from the State Regent, is on file among the 
Connecticut D. A. R. records. The work done in response to these and other ap- 
peals forms the substance of the following pages of tabulated records. 

What cannot be tabulated is the mass of work for the Red Cross and other 
objects, which unfortunately goes unrecorded. 

Without exception the chapters threw themselves unreservedly into Red Cross 
work, food conservation and production and other war activities, but so largely 
as individuals that their records are merged with those of other agencies. Many 
members responded to the appeal to keep their individual records of work, that 
we mght know what our members were doing in the Great War, but the largest 
part did not, although a systematic effort was made by many chapters, by means 
of service cards, to preserve these valuable records for posterity. Hence our 
records in almost all lines of war work and in Liberty Loan investments fall very 
far below the real figures. 

For example, in Red Cross work, the Daughters of the American Revolution 
took the lead, though working so largely as individuals without keeping records 
that their chapters had no means of even estimating their production. Some 
chapters reported "thousands'' and many of them said "impossible to estimate" 
or "no record kept." This should be remembered when the following figures are 
read. 

Twenty-five D. A. R. chapters organized the Red Cross chapters, auxiliaries, 
or groups of workers in their respective towns, most of them after the breaking 
out of the war, and all over the state the Daughters were the Red Cross chair- 
men, officers, supervisors and heads of departments. 

Eighteen chapters had committees of co-operation with the Red Cross ; Emma 
Hart Willard chapter reported that the "whole chapter was the committee" ; 
Martha Pitkin Wolcott chapter stated that the Red Cross in its town "co-operated 
with it," and Sibbil Dwight Kent chapter was "at the head of the Red Cross." 

Thirty-one D. A. R. chapters had a 100% Red Cross membership and the 
whole state attained 93%%. Indeed, the Connecticut D. A. R. were the first 
to inaugurate a systematic Red Cross membership campaign among the Daugh- 
ters. At the Continental Congress of 1916, Mrs, George Maynard Minor, Vice- 
President General from Connecticut, introduced a resolution in behalf of the 
Connecticut delegation, asking as many Daughters as could to join the Red Cross, 
iliis was unanimously adopted by the Congress. The idea had been first sug- 
gested by Mrs. Minor at a meeting of Ruth Wyllys chapter in Hartford, and to 
carry it out and follow up the resolution of Congress, the State Regent appointed 
a State Committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. C. L. F. Robinson of that 
chapter to work up a Red Cross membership campaign among all Connecticut 
Daughters. This was when the American Red Cross numbered less than 50,000 
members. The result was a large increase in Red Cross membership in Con- 
necticut which paved the way for the splendid service rendered the Red Cross 
by the Connecticut D. A. R. during the war. 

In short, the rapid increase in Red Cross chapters and membership in Con- 
necticut and the remarkable efficiency of its work are due in large part to the 
efforts of the Daughters. They simply "ran true to form" after the manner of 
their foremothers. 

In food conservation the chapters co-operated with the food administration in 
all its activities, canvassed for signatures to the Hoover pledge cards, and cut 



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down their consumption of food by cutting out or simplifying refreshments at 
meetings. Twenty-three chapters cut them out entirely and nineteen cut them 
down to "tea and wafers." The members were all punctilious in their patriotic 
obedience to food regulations. 

In canning and preserving there was a uniform story of hard work and loyal 
co-operation. Hundreds upon hundreds of cans and glasses were put up by 
chapter members over and above their usual activities in these lines. In many 
towns the Daughters were leaders in the conservation movements, acting as chair- 
men of home economics commit! ees, demonstrators and teachers. Community 
canning activities were also organized and conducted by individual Daughters 
and by chapters. 

The figures for Connecticut D. A. R. investments in the five Liberty Loans 
speak for themselves. (Pages 54-60). 

In the Fifth Loan Mary Clap Wooster chapter won the prize of $2,000 to be 
added to the records of the woman's organization selling the largest number of 
bonds in one week, and also the prize of $5,000 awarded in the same manner to 
the organization making the largest number of sales in three weeks. It also 
won the honor flag, having had reports of individual investments from 75% of 
its members. 

The splendid work of the chapters in contributing $5,465.24 to the 
N. S. D. A. R. $100,000 Liberty Loan Fund put Connecticut far "over the top," 
our quota, assessed at $1.00 a member on the 1918 membership having been only 
$5,178. At the Continental Congress of 1918, the Connecticut delegation con- 
tributed during the "Rally" for this fund, the sum of $306, of which $150 was 
contributed by the delegation as a whole in honor of our Vice-President General, 
Mrs. Minor, the State Regent, Mrs, Buel, and State Vice-Regent, Mrs. Bissell. 

Every chapter without exception contributed to this Liberty Loan quota, thus 
making the state 100% as to chapters, and forty-five chapters out of the fifty 
were 100% in their chapter quotas, nine of these being far more than 100%. 

In the N. S. D. A. R. Fund for the restoration of the French village of Tillo- 
loy, undertaken by our Society as a whole, the Connecticut chapters also went 
"over the top," contributing $3,030.54 when our state quota was only $2,589 at 
50c. a member. Tliirty-eight chapters went over the top with their quotas, and 
only five did not contribute at all. 

The fund instituted by the National Society for sending women to training 
camps for war work was contributed to by many of our members, who had reg- 
istered a pledge of $30 for this purpose on the registration blanks previously 
mentioned. The sum of $1,180 was realized from these pledges and the State 
Regent appointed a committee to find and pass on applicants. Ten students were 
sent to the National Service School at Washington and to the Chautauqua sum- 
mer encampment. A balance remained unspent, which was later released by the 
donors for the purpose of giving it to the endowment fund of the Ellsworth 
Homestead. 

Programs of chapter meetings have invariably been of a patriotic and dis- 
tinctly warlike nature. Many chapters held public "war rallies," with martial 
music, national anthems of the Allies, best loved songs of the war, and patriotic 
addresses by prominent war-workers, by men in service and by returned war- 
workers, both men and women. 

Entertainments have all been given to raise money for the Red Cross or other 
war work, and have consisted in general of salvage sales, the usual food and 
card parties, war foods only being used, teas with music and speakers, concerts 
and plays, large public whists with "melting pots" ; "pound parties" ; exhibitions 
of antiques; a lecture on "Army and Navy Camouflage".; public lectures by war- 



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workers and collections taken ; lectures on Tilloloy with our official D. A. R. lan- 
tern slides ; "white elephant" sales, free-will and birthday offerings, costume 
dances and garden parties. 

The individual quota system for raising money for chapter war chests has been 
pursued by some chapters on the "same principle as the state quotas for specified 
sums. 

Miscellaneous donations of money not otherwise listed have had many and var- 
ious objects, such as local Farm Bureaus, Blind War Relief, Training Camp 
Fund, French Orphans, etc. 

In other war agencies, the Daughters were to be found serving as officers, man- 
agers, and most efficient members. They were chairmen of local Liberty Loan 
committees, and food conservation and home economics committees ; twenty-eight 
were chairmen of their town committees of the Woman's Division, State Coun- 
cil of Defense and officers of local war bureaus ; others were first lieutenants of 
"Minute Women,'' war rally speakers, members of the Speakers' Bureau, State 
Council of Defense ; chairmen of W. S. S. drives ; members of the Connecticut 
State Council of Defense ; captains of teams and secretaries of war drives ; offi- 
cers and managers of hostess houses ; members of motor corps ; chairmen and 
secretaries of Red Cross membership campaigns ; and war-workers serving in 
capacities too numerous and varied to mention. 

The State Regent represented the Connecticut Daughters on the Executive 
Committee of the Woman's Division, Connecticut State Council of Defense ; on 
the Connecticut Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, of which Mrs. Morgan G. 
Bulkeley, another Daughter, was the State Chairman, and was a member of the 
Speakers' Bureau, speaking at several war rallies in this capacity, as did also our 
Vice-President General, Mrs. Minor, and State Vice-Regent, Mrs. Bissell. The 
General of the Housewives' Army ; the State Chairman of the Girls' Patriotic 
League, and the State Chairman of the Victory Commission, State Federation of 
Women's Clubs, were all Daughters. 

Twelve Connecticut Daughters enlisted for foreign service, and one of them. 
Miss Alice Cunningham Rogers, gave her life for the cause. The following reso- 
lutions of tribute were adopted by the Connecticut delegation at the Congress 
of 1919: 



RESOLUTIONS ON DEATH OF MISS ALICE CUNNINGHAM ROGERS 

Resolved, That the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution at the 
annual state meeting held in Washington, April 14, 1919, record their sorrow on 
the loss of a_ valiant member, Miss Alice Cunningham Rogers, of Putnam Hill 
Chapter — a Y. M. C. A. worker who died on March 21, 1919, at Neuilly, 
France, while rendering a noble service for her country and humanity ; and, be it 
further 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to her bereaved family and 
to the Putnam Hill Chapter. 

(Signed) Eva V. M. Bissell, 

Florence S. M, Crofut. 

Adopted by the meeting of regents, delegates and alternates, Connecticut 
Daughters of the American Revolution at Washington, D. C, April 14, 1919. 



Louise Lyon Barnum, 
State Recording Secretary. 



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CONNECTICUT D. A. R. IN FOREIGN SERVICE 

ESTHER VOORHEES HASSON. 

Went to France in June, 191 7, where she served as nurse with the 
American Expeditionary Forces. 
Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, 
New Haven. 

RUTH LANE DANIELS. 

Entered foreign service in the summer of 1917. Served as supervisor 

of nurses in U. S. Base Hospital, No. 15, France. 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, 

Putnam. 

LUCY PRATT MITCHELL. 

Went abroad August 22, 191 7, with Army Nurse Corps, U. S. Base 

Hospital No. 12. Served with the American Expeditionary Forces. 

Ruth Wyllys Chapter, 

Hartford. 

FRANCES ELIOT HICKOX. 

Went to France in October, 191 7. Served with the Y. M. C. A. 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, 

Litchfield. 

EDITH BROOKS. 

Went overseas March 11, 1918, and served as Red Cross nurse in Palestine. 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter, 

Derby. 

ELSIE LIVINGSTON HEPBURN. 

Began foreign service in the spring of 1918. Served as a canteen 

worker in France. 

Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter, 

Milford. 

J. ALICE MAXWELL. 

Went to France in August, 1918. Was at the head of the "Mayfair 

Rehef in Paris. 

Sabra Trumbull Chapter, 

Rockville. 

ANNA RUMBAUGH. 

Served as nurse's aid in France, where she went in September, 1918. 

Hannah Benedict Carter Chapter, 

New Canaan. 



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LILLIAN MACK HITCHCOCK. 

Gave six months' hospital service in France. 

Putnam Hill Chapter, 

Greenwich. 

VERA J. EDWARDS. 

Went to France, October i, 1918, and served with a Red Cross Hospital 

Unit in Paris. 

Mary Silliman Chapter, 

Bridgeport. 

LILLIAN ESTELLE FARRELL. 

Went to France, November, 1918, and served as canteen worker. 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull Chapter, 

Ansonia. 

ALICE CUNNINGHAM ROGERS. 

Went overseas December 21, 1918, and died at Neuilly, France, while 

on active duty with the Y. M. C. A. 

Putnam Hill Chapter, 

Greenwich. 



ENLISTED FOR FOREIGN SERVICE BUT NOT CALLED. 

LOUISE BASSETT. 

Nurse. 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter, 

Derby. 

ESTHER ALLING. 

Hospital Service. 

Emma Hart Willard Chapter, 

Berlin. 



IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES. 

INEZ FOWLER. 

Yeo woman in U. S. Navy. 

EJizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, 

Putnam. 

MARION SMITH. 

Clerk on Draft Board. 

Ruth Hart Chapter, 

Meriden. 



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MRS. ALEXANDER J. WOODS. 

Y. W. C. A. 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter. 

Derby. 

MARION BE:ACH. 

Army School of Nursing. 

Roger Sherman Chapter, 

New Milford. 

MRS. PORTER MARCY CASSIDY. 

Clerical work, Washington, D. C. 

Roger Sherman Chapter, 

New Milford. 

KATHERINE S. WILBOR. 

Reconstruction work in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Esther Stanley Chapter, 

New Britain. 



Four hundred and seventy-four Connecticut Daughters gave their sons, five 
hundred and forty in number, to fight, and if need be, die, for the priceless lib- 
erty of their ancestors. Of these sons twenty-four made the supreme sacrifice. 
In reverent tribute we record the names of their mothers: 

GOLD STAR MOTHERS IN CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS. 

MRS. HARRIS B. HUJVIASON. 

Esther Stanley Chapter, 
New Britain. 

MRS. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN. 

Fanny Ledyard Chapter, 
Mystic. 

MRS. J. AUGUSTUS PRINCE. 

Lucretia Shaw Chapter, 
New London. 



MRS. ELIZABETH M. JEROME. 

Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, 
New Haven. 



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MRS. G. FREDERICK LYON. 

Mary Wooster Chapter, 
Danbury. 

MRS. CHARLES LINCOLN BANKS, 
MRS. STEPHEN C. OSBORNE. 

Mary Silliman Chapter, 
Bridgeport. 

MRS. GEORGE L. LILLEY. 

Melicent Porter Chapter, 
Waterbury. 

MRS. CHARLES F. TAYLOR. 

Putnam Hill Chapter, 
Greenwich. 

MRS. C. L. F. ROBINSON, 

MRS. ARTHUR L. GILLETTE, 

MRS. FRANK G. SMITH, 

MRS. THOMAS J. BOARDMAN, 

MRS. HERBERT O. WARNER, 

MRS. JOHN H. ROSE, 

MRS. WILLIAM CHENEY BROWNE. 

Ruth Wyllys Chapter, 
Hartford. 

MRS. JAMES T. SYKES. 

Sabra Trumbull Chapter, 
Rockville. 

MRS. GEORGE H. SCRANTON. 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter, 
Derby. 

MRS. WILLIAM H. BEERS, 
MRS. ALICE S. TAYLOR. 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull Chapter, 
Watertown. 

MRS. MARY E. TAYNTOR. 

Sarah Williams Danielson Chapter, 
Killingly. 



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MRS. SAMUEL H. GRAHAM, 

Sihbil Dwio;ht Kent Chapter, 
Siiffield. 

MRS. ANSON H. BATES, 
MRS. RALPH M. WILCOX. 

Wadsworth Chapter, 
Middletown. 

The Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution had no sympathy 
with pacifism or pro-Germanism, mawkish sentimentahty, or mushy forgiveness 
for the Hun, a foe steeped in infamous crimes against humanity. Unconditional 
surrender of the Htm, victory absolute and unquestioned, were their watchwords. 
The high spirit of their race, in arms once more for liberty, was theirs in fullest 
measure. So marked was this spirit amongst them in common with all other 
red-blooded American womanhood, that the State Regent felt justified in send- 
ing the following telegram to President Wilson at the time of his interchange of 
notes with Germany in October, 1918: 

"To the President, Washington, D. C: 

"Five thousand Daughters of the American Revolution in Connecticut beg of 
you to stand firm for unconditional surrender and total defeat of the Hun on his 
own soil. Nothing less can be tolerated by those who give sons, brothers, fath- 
ers, husbands, that the world may be safe against a repetition of German atroc- 
ity and diabolism. 

(Signed) Elizabeth Barney Buel, 

State Regent, 

Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. 

Various resolutions adopted by the Connecticut Daughters during the period 
of the war reveal their patriotic temper, the spirit of their forefathers showing 
clearly in their attitude toward the momentous happenings of the times. They 
took a definite stand in favor of compulsor)' and universal military training, urg- 
ing these measures of protection and preparedness upon the government in res- 
olutions ofi^ered by Mrs. George M. Minor, Vice-President General, and adopted 
at their State Conference of March, 191 7, on the eve of this country's entrance 
into the World War. They also went on record, in a resolution passed at a spe- 
cial meeting of chapter regents, held on November 23d, 191 7, as favoring the 
most drastic measures possible in war-times against all pacifists, spies, pro-Ger- 
mans and other traitors within our gates. These two resolutions follow : 

UNIVERSAL MILITARY SERVICE. 

"We, the representatives of 5,000 Connecticut Daughters of the American Rev- 
olution, in annual State Conference assembled in the city of New Haven, March 
28, 1917, do unanimously and solemnly adopt the following resolutions: 

"Whereas, by sinking our merchant ships without warning; by murdering our 
citizens on the high seas while peacefull}^ exercising their just rights of travel 
thereon ; by plotting to invade and dismember our territory under cloak of friend- 
ship and peace, and by stirring up treason and sedition within our borders, Ger- 



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many has made war upon us, and therefore we are now by her acts alone, in a 
state of war; and , 

"Whereas, owing to our traditional and blind belief in our ability to get ready 
in a moment, we now find ourselves unprepared to face such a catastrophe ; 
therefore be it 

"Resolved, that we urge upon our President, to whom we have already offered 
our fullest support, the need of exercising his authority to the utmost limit in 
the upholding of our national honor and self-respect, and that we urge upon 
Congress the need of adopting not merely emergency measures, but that 
it should definitely recognize the principle that the duty of defending the nation 
rests equally upon all citizens capable of service and not merely on the loyal 
National Guard and patriotic volunteers, who should not be left alone to bear the 
brunt of national defense ; and to this end that it should establish immediately a 
permanent and democratic system of defense based upon universal military ser- 
vice and training ; and further 

"Resolved, that we, the women who send our sons, husbands and fathers to the 
defense of our country's rights and liberties so basely assailed, hereby declare our 
right to demand that they be adequately trained and prepared, now and hereafter, 
to meet the enemy on fair and at least equal terms and not defenseless as a vis- 
ionary and traitorous pacifism would leave them ; that we hereby condemn such 
pacifism as disloyal and dangerous, giving aid and comfort to the enemy ; and 
likewise condemn all other acts designed, in this hour of peril to prevent the adop- 
tion of measures for the protection of the country ; and 

"Resolved ; that we, as descendants of the men and women who founded this 
nation on the basis of human liberty, do hereby declare our readiness to make 
like sacrifices as theirs for our country ; and furthermore call upon all Ameri- 
cans to show their unswerving loyalty, in this world war against a savage mili- 
tarism, to those same principles of democracy now at stake in Europe ; and 

"Resolved ; that copies of these resolutions be sent to the President of the 
United States, to the Secretary of War and of the Navy, to the members of both 
committees on military afifairs and to our senators and representatives in 
congress." 

PACIFISTS, SPIES, PRO-GERMANS AND TRAITORS. 

"Whereas, many of us heard with approval the vigorous remarks of Governor 
Holcomb, of Connecticut, against pacifists in this state at the meeting of Ruth 
Wyllys Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, in Hartford, on No- 
vember 17th, and realize that there are many, not only in this state, but in the 
country ; and, 

"Whereas, we feel that there has been too much laxity on the part of our na- 
tional government in dealing with pacifists, spies, pro-Germans and traitors and 
also with enemy aliens, be it 

"Resolved, that we, the Chapter Regents of 5,000 Connecticut 'Daughters of the 
American Revolution, in special meeting assembled, urge our state and national 
governments to take the most stringent measures afforded by martial law in war 
time for the protection of our country from this peril within our gates ; and 

"Resolved, that copies of this resolution be sent to the President of the United 
States, the Secretary of State, and the Governor of Connecticut." 

Adopted by chapter regents at a special meeting at Hartford, November 23, 
1917. 

Louise L. Barnum, 

State Recording Secretary. 



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The armistice was viewed with disappointment and foreboding by many who 
had hoped to see their boys march victorious into Berlin through a humiHated 
Germany, forced to suffer legitimate retribution on her own soil for the woe and 
ruin she had dealt out to others. 

h'urthermore, at a special meeting of chapter regents held in January, 1919, 
this spirit was shown in the various resolutions unanimously adopted. One was 
to endorse the movement of the American Defense Society to promote a general 
boycott of German-made goods. Another endorsed the petition of the Com- 
mittee for the Protection of Women in International Law in response to the ap- 
peal of the women of France that officers and soldiers of the German army com- 
mitting outrages upon women be severally and individually punished as criminals 
and the women so injured be declared "wounded in war." Another endorsed a 
bill pending in Congress to forbid the use of the red flag of Socialism or any 
other disloyal emblem. 

A fourth resolution, which was presented by Mrs. Minor, Vice-President Gen- 
eral, Mrs. Sedgwick, Regent of Mary Clap Wooster Chapter and Mrs. Bissell, 
State Vice-Regent, called upon our Society to do all in its power to promote An- 
glo-American friendship and mutual understanding. The full text follows : 

ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP. 

"Whereas, England and America have been fighting shoulder to shoulder in the 
World War against German autocracy for the same great principles of liberty 
for which our ancestors, the patriots of the American Revolution, fought when 
they resisted the tyranny of George III., a German king on England's throne ; 
and 

"Whereas, the two great English-speaking peoples of the same ancestry, heirs of 
a common language, literature, law, ideals of life and Anglo-Saxon freedom, 
have been once more united in a common struggle for the preservation of these 
ideals ; Englishmen and Americans laying down their lives together that free- 
dom might live ; be it 

"Resolved, that we, the regents of the fifty chapters of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution of Connecticut assembled in special meeting in Hartford, 
January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nineteen, do declare it to be pre-emi- 
nently fitting that we, the descendants of those Americans who fought against 
the principles of German tyranny which threatened to overwhelm the liberty of 
the English people in the days of 1776, should be among the first to welcome and 
promote friendship and mutual understanding between our two countries, too 
long separated by ancient strife and prejudice, but now united in a common 
cause ; and that we do all in our power as a Society to increase the present sen- 
timent of mutual good-will ; and 

"Resolved, That we request the National Board of Management through our 
State Regent. Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, at its next meeting to take such steps as 
it may deem practicable and expedient to transmit these sentiments in behalf of 
the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to King 
George, Queen Mary and the people of England. 

Signed : 

Anne Rogers Minor, 

(Mrs. George Maynard Minor). 

Edith W. Sedgwick 

(Mrs. Hubert M. Sedgwick). 

Eva V. M. Bissell, 

(Mrs. Charles H. Bissell). 



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This resolution was endorsed by the National Board of Management and 
adopted by the 28th Continental Congress upon motion of Mrs. Minor. It was 
aispatched to King George and Queen Mary and an appreciative note of acknowl- 
edgment was received from the King by the National Society. Thus shall the 
memories of the third George become merged in friendship with the fifth and 
his people, who likewise are our people, pledged to the same ideals of liberty. 

Finally, the spirit of devoted patriotism of the Connecticut Daughters found 
highest expression in their two "General Meetings" of 1917 and 1918, held respec- 
tively in Stamford and Hartford. War meetings were they in very truth, with 
music and addresses so inspiring, patriotic, martial and elevated that they will 
long resound in the hearts and memories of the Connecticut Daughters of the 
American Revolution. 

The grand total of expenditures on war work for the duration of the war, ex- 
clusive of Liberty Loans and War Savings Stamps, amounted to $216,724.72. 

The following pages give the tabulated report of the returns of the registration 
blanks sent out to the chapters, followed by a reprint, corrected and revised to 
June, 1919, of the State War Work Report blank of the National Society, as 
filled out for Connecticut by the State Regent. It is compiled from the corre- 
sponding chapter report blanks filled out by each chapter in the state and returned 
to the State Regent for this purpose. 

Following this are pages, tabulated by chapters, giving the itemized figures 
which comprise the totals of the state blank in every line of work taken up by 
the Connecticut Chapters. 

This report concludes with a summary of individual records and official posi- 
tions held by members and a brief record of original chapter work and such state 
work as was undertaken collectively by all the chapters in the state. 

Supplemental details will be found in the printed reports of the State Regenr 
during the period of the war 



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War Relief Service Committee, National Society, D. A. R. 
Report of Registration Blanks, Connecticut. 

Percentage of 
Chapter: Blanks Sent Blanks returned Returns 

Abi Humlston 19 8 42.1 

Thomaston 
Abigail Phelps 81 58 71.6 

Sinisbury 
Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 78 65 83.3 

Windsor 
Anna Warner Bailey 113 22 19.4 

Groton and Stonington 
Anne Brewster Fanning 25 22 88.0 

Jewett City 
Anne Wood Elderkin 86 40 46.5 

Willimantic 
Deborah Avery Putnam 43 6 13.9 

Plainfield 
Dorothy Ripley 25 13 52.0 

Southport 
Elizabeth Clarke Hull 109 . . 

Ansonia 
Elizabeth Porter Putnam 94 40 42.5 

Putnam 
Emma Hart Willard 53 10 18.8 

Berlin 
Esther Stanley 147 105 71.4 

New Britain 
Eunice Dennie Burr 48 . . .... 

Fairfield 
Eve Lear 116 55 47.4 

New Haven 
Faith Trumbull 112 2 1.7 

Norwich 
Fanny Ledyard 102 36 " 35.6 

Mystic 
Freelove Baldwin Stow 100 . . .... 

Milford 
Green Woods 92 34 36.9 

Winsted 
Hannah Benedict Carter 31 13 41.9 

New Canaan 
Hannah Woodruff 80 24 30.0 

Southington 
Judea 38 19 50.0 

Washington 
Katherine Gaylord 182 . . .... 

Bristol 
Lady Fenwick 61 14 22.9 

Cheshire 
Lucretia Shaw 190 87 45.7 

New London 
Marana Norton Brooks 62 42 67.7 

Torrington 
Martha Pitkin Wolcott 75 15 20.0 

East Hartford 
Mary Clap Wooster 396 134 33.8 

New Haven 
Mary Floyd Tallmadge '. . 93 36 38.7 

Litchfield 
Mary Silliman 389 145 37.2 

Bridgeport 



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War Relief Seit'ice Committee, National Society, D. A. R. 
Report of Registration Blanks, Connecticut 



Chapter: 

Mary Wooster 

Danbury 
Melicent Porter 

Waterbury 
Nathan Hale Memorial 

East Haddani 
Norwalk 

Norwalk 
Orford Parish 

South Manchester 
Phoebe Humphrey 

Collinsville 
Putnam Hill 

Greenwich 
Roger Sherman 

New Milford 
Ruth Hart 

Meriden 
Ruth Wyllys 

Hartford 
Sabra Trumbull 

Rockville 
Sarah Ludlow 

Seymour 
Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Derby 
Sarah Rogers 

Naugatuck 
Sarah Whitman Hooker 

West Hartford 
Sarah Whitman Trumbull 

Watertown 
Sarah Williams Danielson 

Killingly 
Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Suffield 
Stamford 

Stamford 
Susan Carrington Clarke 

Meriden 
Wadsworth 

Middletown 

Totals 

Belated returns 

Total returns from 46 out of 50 
Chapters 



Percentage of 
Blanks Sent Blanks returned Returns 



127 

142 

65 

79 

61 

44 

63 

40 

153 

393 

78 

54 

168 

96 

88 

.48 

66 

77 

74 

140 

120 



85 
22 
41 
12 
47 
14 
32 
16 
32 
129 
44 
6 
79 
37 
34 
40 
13 
66 
39 
31 
13 



66.9 
15.4 
63.0 
15.1 
77.0 
31.8 
50.7 
40.0 
20.9 
32.8 
56.4 
11.1 
47.0 
38.5 
38.6 
83.3 
19.6 
85.7 
52.7 
22.1 
10.8 



5,216 



1,877 
88 



1,965 



35.9 



37.67 



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The following Reprint of the State War Work Report to the National Society is 
corrected and revised to June, 1919. 

Bulletin. No. 41-A 

NATIONAL SOMETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY, President-General 



WAR RELIEF SERVICE COMMITTEE 

MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT. Chairman MRS. THOMAS A. EDISON, Vice-Chairman 

MRS. ALBERT S. BURLESON, Vice-Chairman MRS. HOWARD L. HODGKINS, Secretary 

District Directors District Vice-Directors 



Mrs. Andrew F. Fox 
Mrs. Harold R. Howell 

Mrs. James Lov/ry Smith 
Mrs. James Benton Grant 
Mrs. Frank D. Ellison 
Mrs. G. Wallace V^^ Hanger 



Mrs. Sheppard W. Foster 
Mrs. John Lee Dinwiddle 
Miss Stella Pickett Hardy 
Mrs. Maynard Force Thayer 
Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel 
Miss Helen E. C. Overton 



Please Read Over CAREFULLY this Entire Bulletin Before Beginning to Fill it Out. 

FOR STATE REGENTS 
IMPORTANT TIME SCHEDULE TO INSURE PROAU^T AND COMPLETE RETURNS 

By Dec. 30, 1918, Report Blanks distributed to District Directors by Publicity 
Director 

By Jan. 10th, 1919. Report Blanks distributed to State Regents by District Directors. 

By Jan. 18th, 1919. Report Blanks distributed to Chapter Regents by State Regents. 

By Feb. 11th, Report Blanks filled out by Chapter Regents and returned to State 
Regents. 

By March 11th, 1919. Report Blanks filled out and returned by State Regents to Pub- 
licity Director. 

By April 1st, National Report for Continental Congress finished by Publicity Director, 
and in hands of printer. 



WAR WORK 

Report of State of Connecticut: 5 chapters, ali reporting. 

Name of State Regent, Elizabeth C. Barney Buel (Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel). 

Address of State Regent, Litchfield, Connecticut. 

WAR WORK PREVIOUS to ENTRANCE of the UNITED STATES into the W AR. 

National Surgiciil Di-essiiigs Committee. 

Total amount of money given, $2,469. 
Total number of Hospital Garments given, 1,052. 

Total number of Surgical Supplies given, 6,560; 1 box and 1 bundle, linen 
and cotton. 
Blind Relief, $10. Belgian Relief, $2,894.45, 1 box garments at $42.50, and 1 
"barrel" silver coin, 3,000 articles. 
Red Cross (Work done BEFORE April 6th, 1917.) 
Total amount of money given, $7,727.81. 

Total number of Hospital Garments given, 3,660; knitted garments, 159. 
Total number of Surgical Supplies given, 11,746; 1 box "No. 1"; 1 piece 

gauze. 
Miscellaneous Gifts, 6,301; use of chapter house and chapter room. For men 
on Mexican border: $52.50, stationery, 18 kits, 18 bags, 1,000 miscella- 
neous articles, fruits, jelly. Bags for French soldiers; $60 to send boy to 
Plattsburg; $29 for yarn for Italy. 



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WAR VVOKK SINCE the UNITED STATES declared WAR. 

FOR THE ARMY. This includes work in Cantonments, Camps, Forts and Student 
Army Training Corps Barracks. If gifts were made through Commanding Of- 
cers for the soldiers, please state name of place. 

Camps Devens and Green; Forts Wright, Terry and Trumbull. 
Mending Bureau. 

Amount of money spent 

Number of Hours given 1 day a week by five members ) , . 

Number of Garments mended "10 boxes and barrels," f "^7 one cnapter. 

Comfort Equipment. 

Total number of knitted garments, 9,381. 
Comfort Bags, 1,068; Housewives, 516. 
Barrack Bags, 50; Ice Bags, 12; Property Bags, 164. 
Scrap Books 195; books, 934; clippings, 810; games, 52. 
Paper-lined Vests, 10. 

Picture Puzzles, 144; Smileage Books, 45, and $15 for books. 
Number of Glasses of Jelly, 2824; quarts, 306; canned goods, 140. 
Number, Kind and Cost of any Miscellaneous Gifts $1,120: letters; postals; 
1 cot & 18 misc; clothing; linen; books; 6 hospital equipments; canes; 
games; cake; pies; candy; tobacco; purses; toilet articles; chocolate; 
fruit: cost, $691. 
Velucles. (To whom given and cost). 

Ambulances, 5 in France, $8,000; toward an ambulance fund, $5. 

Field Kitchens 

Hospitality. (Please state approximate cost of items under this heading.) 

Christmas Celebrations, cash, $875; Christmas stockings, 700; boxes, 237; 

bags, 24; community song service; 500 copies song "Connecticut." 
Hospitality Houses, $200. Hospitality Rooms, $109. 
Mess Fund, $650; for a Thanksgiving dinner, $75. 
Number of men entertained in homes as house guests, 44; as table guests, 

166. 
Number of men entertained at Clubs, Hotels and other public places, 200. 
Number of Box Lunches to men en route, 2,8 08. 
Also magazines, 256; mag. articles, 209; subsc. to mag. 2 yrs. No. not given. 

FOR THE NAVY. 

"Adopted Boat." If you pledged to supply knitted garments, etc., to the crew 
of a United States boat for the War, please state name and kind of boat: 
Concerted State work undertaken for U. S. S. "Connecticut" but she was not 
an "adopted boat for the war." 

Also Number of Knitted Garments, 585 thro' State: 929 independently; 
total, 1,514. 

Comfort Kits, 278; envelopes of clippings, 358 and large box full. 

Tobacco (cost) Candy (cost) 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost, 34. 
Other Boats. (If you sent consigiimeuts to any other boat, please state name and 
kind of boat) Submarine B3, patrol boat "Gresham," sub-chaser, 51; Coast 
Guard; transport "Henderson"; U. S. S. "Brooklyn" & "New York," "Coney," 
"Crystabel," un-named patrol boat, submarine & sub-chaser. Naval Training 
Station, Naval Hospital. 

Also Number of Knitted Garments, 2,630. 

Comfort Kits, 32; Clippings, 7. 

Tobacco (cost) Candy (cost) 

Miscellaneous Gifts and cost, $8 4 for wool and kits. 
Gifts to Individual Sailors. 

Number of Knitted Garments, 748. 

Comfort Kits 93 Scrap Books 

Tobacco (cost), $15; Candy (cost) $10. 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost: 5 boxes, 40 miscellanies, cash, $456. 

To Hon. Franklin I. Roosevelt. (Assistant Secretary of the Navy.) 

Number of Binoculars, 9. 

Number of Spy Glasses, 12. 



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Miscellaneous. Any other assistance of any kind to the Navy: Knitted articles, 
30; wipes, 24; mag., 200; books, 12; "endless Sunday dinners for sailors in 
homes," by members of Lucretia Shaw Chapter, New London, which also or- 
ganized its "Emergency Supplies of Knitted Garments." (See page 27.) 

For Aviation. (Please state name of Field). Mineola, Long Island, N. Y. 
Number of Knitted Garments, 3,964, at a cost of over $4,047.55. 

Kid-lined Vests Pur-lined Vests 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost: Envelopes of clippings, 47; miscellanies, 25. 
Note: The knitting for Aviators was concerted State work. 3,600 gar- 
ments, or 600 sets, 6 pieces each, viz., sweater, helmet, muffler, wristlets, 
mittens & socks, were promised; the above 3,96 4 were sent. 

For Over Sea Forces. (This means gifts SENT Over-Seas.) 
Number of Knitted Garments, 1,100. 
Comfort Kits, 93; Christmas Packets, 163. 
Christmas Boxes, 250; 2,000 more filled; cost $282.25. 
Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost: 27 money belts, 100 jelly, 100 cigarettes, 
gloves, literature, comforts; cost, $302.50. 

To UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN FUND. Nov. 11-18, 1918. 

Amount of money contributed, $21,789.03. 

Number of speakers furnished, 2; number of speeches, 12. 

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS made PREVIOUSLY to November 11th, 1918. 

To Y. M. C. A. 

Amount of money contributed, $21,889. 

Number of Books for Y. M. C. A. Libraries, 3,936, and "20 boxes." 

Number of Victrola Records given, 1,298. 

Number and Cost of Subscriptions for Newspapers, 75 subs, besides others 
at $25. 

Number and Cost of Subscriptions for Magazines, 42 subs, besides others 
at $25. 

Number and Cost of Pianos given 

Number, Kind and Cost of other Musical Instruments given 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost, $501. 
To Y. W. C. A. 

Amount of money contributed, $1,115. 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost 

To Knights of Colunibus. 

Amount of money contributed, $1,342. 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost 

To Salvation Army. 

Amount of money contributed, $1,550. 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost 

To Jewish Relief. 

Amount of money contributed, $46.50. 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost 

To American Librai-y Association. i 

Amount of money contributed, $90; Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost, 606 
Books. 
To War Camp Comnmnity Service. 

Amount of money contributed, $746.50. 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost: Chapter piano loaned by Lucretia Shaw 
Chapter, 

TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS DOING WAR WORK. 

Name of Organization: Farm Bureau, $126 and 2 coats at $45; National De- 
fense, $15; McCall Mission, $20; Putnam State Guard, $5; Allied War Re- 
lief, $30; for Baptist minister in camp, $50; "Mayfair Relief," $150 and $50 
for caps, dresses, underwear; for hospital bed in Paris, $300; undesignated, 
$267.50. 

Amount of money contributed 

Miscellaneous Gifts and Cost 



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FOR HOME RELIEF. (Please state kind and cost of same.) 

Gifts to Families of Soldiers aiid Sailors: Vegetables, money, food, clothing, cash, 
$2,627.50. Regular visits, care of 50 families of both by one chapter, of 40 
families of soldiers by another, co-operation with social service, list of soldiers 
of one town made by chapter for purpose of ascertaining if insurance was 
carried. 

Gifts to Families of Sailors 

FOR FRANCE. 

Number of French Orphans adopted: 286 @ $36.50 equals $10,439; addi- 
tional cash, $158. Total $10,597, besides money gifts of $138. 

Amount contributed for Tilloloy: $3,030.54. Is it 100%? A good deal 
more. 

Number of Garments sent French refugees: 4,450 & 19 barrels new, 5 bar- 
rels second-hand clothing. 

Number of Crocheted Shoulder Shawls for aged French Women, 11. 

Amount contributed to Poultry Farms in France, $29. 

Given to Funds for "Devastated France," $540, "Food for France," $880, 
Fr. Hospital, $47. Donations: Smith College Unit, Fr. children, Fr. 
soldier's family (soldier a prisoner), ambulance driver in Fr., Fr. Or- 
phan's Xmas box, Fr. Red Cross, general relief, bedding, clothing, 200 
pillows, 259 pieces linen for Fr. Hosp., 3 gals, jam, 52 lbs. sugar, 2 Xmas 
bags, 10 lbs. candy, 3 boxes tob. & chocolate; & cash: total, $939.50. 

FOR OUR OTHER ALLIES. 

Name of Country: Armenia, Belgium, England, Poland, Serbia, Italy, un- 
named countries. 

Amount of money contributed, $3,313.8 3, includes $500 for toys for Duryea 
Relief, etc. 

Number of Garments given, 734. 

Miscellaneous Gifts (Kind and Cost), 150 articles of relief. 

One-fourth cost of ambulance for Italy. 

Through what Society given? None stated. 

FOR RED CROSS. 

GIFTS to Red Cross. 
Cash, $101,677.73. 

Number of Hospital Garments, 3,135 and one equipment. 
Number of Surgical Supplies: 19,5 26 & 3% pieces of gauze. 
Number of Knitted Garments: 4,767 and $928.40 for yarn. 
Number of Comfort Kits, 716. 
Miscellaneous, 8 87. 

WORK given but Red Cross Material used. 

Number of Hospital Garments made: 51,643; refugee, 352. (by 30 chap- 
ters). 

Number of Surgical Supplies made: 781,939; linen, 91 pieces, (by 22 
chapters). 

Number of Knitted Garments made: 35,720. (by 32 chapters). 

Number of Comfort Kits made: 3,757 & 1,003 articles for filling besides; 
housewives, 370. (by 18 chapters) 

How many Chapters in your state worked as D. A. R. Red Cross Auxiliaries? 
10. Work mostly by individuals and co-operative by chapters. 

State number of Daughters in your State who served as Red Cross Chair- 
men of Departments, 328. Or as County Chairmen, 3. And 25 D. A. R. 
chapters organized the local Red Cross chapters in their towns. 

State number of D. A. R. Red Cross members in your State: 4,829. Is it 
100%? Not quite. 



26 

FOR LIBERTY LOANS. 

First, Taken by Chapters: $3,650. By State: $500. 

Taken by Individual Daughters, $872,975. 

Sold by Daughters, $106,050. 
Second. Taken by Chapters, $4,000. By State, $600. 

Taken by Individual Daughters, $1,143,500. 

Sold by Daughters, $102,550. 
Third. Taken by Chapters, $2,275. By State, $1,000. 

Taken by Individual Daughters, $930,925. 

Sold by Daughters, $224,200. 
Fourth. Taken by Chapters, $2,100. By State, $100. 

Taken by Individual Daughters, $1,237,375. 

Sold by Daughters, $1,299,400. 
Total in Four Loajis. 

Taken by Chapters $12,275. By State, $2,200 

Taken by Individual Daughters, $4,377,175. Belated reports, $14,200 

Sold by Daughters, $2,243,000 

Contributed to D. A. R. $100,000.00 Liberty Loan $5,465.25. Was it 

100% More.* 

SERVICE ABROAD. 

Name of any Daughters in your State who went into Foreign Service and 
SERVED ABROAD. 

Please state their names in full: There are 12. See additional pages 12 and 
13. 



Home Addresses 

Where they have served or are serving 

In what capacity they have served or are serving 



Date of going overseas 

Have they returned to this country 

If deceased, When Where 

If overseas, was she in service when she died 

Name of any Daughters in your State who enlisted for foreign service but 

v/ere not called for said service. There are 2; see additional pages; p. 13. 

Home addresses 



In what service enlisted 



SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES. 

Name of any Daughters in your State whose wai- service in this country has 
been recognized as such and paid for by the United States Government. 
There are 6; see additional pages 13 and 14. 
Home addresses 



Capacity in which they have served or are serving 

WAR MOTHERS. 

How many D. A. R. War Mothers in your State? 474. 

How many sons do they represent? 5 38: la Real Daughter's gr. grandson. 

How many of those sons are now represented by "gold stars?" 24. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Salvage. Have you taken any part in Salvage Work. If so, what? 

Raised over $3,000 by "salvage sales," "melting pots," etc. Articles saved: 
Rubber, gloves, kid, fruit pits, newspapers, gold, silver, lead, tin-foil, 
clothing, etc. 



*Note: Fifth Liberty Loan. 

Taken by Chapters, $1,700. Taken by State, $500. 
Taken by individual Daughters, $1,163,450. 
Sold by Daughters, $316,700. 



27 

Flags. (Please state to what Branch of the service they were given). 
Number of 

American Flags: 6: given to State Guard, School War Garden and a Czec- 
koslovak Camp. 

Allied Flags 

Service Flags and to whom given: 6: 3 to chapters; 2 to members over- 
seas; 1 to a town. 

War Records 

Was any systematic effort made by your State Chapters to compile War Rec- 
ords of Men in Service in your State? Yes, by 4 chapters; and to write 
to the men: Yes. 

How many names were obtained? 168. 

How many replies received to your letters? Letters, 110 plus; replies, 66 
plus. 

State Expense involved in obtaining lists and in postage: None. 

Did you supply these men with comforts when they stated their needs. Yes. 

State method used in keeping lists: Not a State work; card systems used 
by two chapters. 

Pins. (Number and cost of same.) 
Service Pins: 4; cost not stated. 
D. A. R. RoU-of-Honor Pins. 143; cost, .$71.50. 

Xational Service Schools. 

AVASHINGTON. Number of students sent, 2. 

Amount of money contributed 

CHArTAUQUA. Number of students sent, 8. 

Amount of money contributed: $1,180; used, $360; balance on hand, $820. 

D. A. R. War Work Rooms. 

How many Chapters have maintained D. A. R. Work Rooms: 5; & 2 loaned 

chapter houses. 
Expense of same, $385 reported; much more spent. 

NEW LINES OF WAR WORK developed since the Armistice was signed. 

Gifts for Sick and AVoimded Men returning to American Hospitals from overseas. 
Name of Hospital: Walter Reed, Washington, D. C; Allingtown, New 

Haven; Navy League, Norwalk; Camp Devens. 

Number of Knitted Garments 

Comfort Bags Scrap Books 

Glasses of Jelly: 346. Musical Instruments: 2 Victrolas, 20 records. 

Picture Puzzles: 3. Games: 40 & over 300 packs cards. 

Miscellaneous gifts: 10 leggings, 20 crutches, 15 stump protectors, 35 books, 

732 canes, innumerable motor rides for convalescents. 

(Please state cost also, of last five articles) 

lleconstniction Work. 

Where: Red Cross refugee sewing; 385 garments. 

Kind: A member gives $25 a week for restoration of a village. A mem- 
ber is taking reconstruction course at Bryn Mawr. 

FOR FRANCE AND OUR OTHER ALLIES. (1 chapter only reporting) 

How many bolts of cloth? 59 yards. 

Spools of Thread etc., etc., sent the women of our allies to en- 
able them to sew for their own children 

Original War Woi-k. Please state any original war work you have done, not 
listed under the headings in this Bulletin, and the cost of same: Lucretia 
Shaw Chapter, New London, organized its "Emergency Supplies of Knitted 
Garments" for soldiers and sailors gathering in such numbers at naval bases 
there that the situation could not at first be handled by local Red Cross. Gar- 
ments given out direct to men, often just sailing overseas. Other State Chap- 



28 

ters assisted, donating 589 garments (not previously counted in), Lucretia 
Shaw donating 145 (included under "other boats"); total 654. This Chap- 
ter also opened its historic Nathan Hale School House as a rest and writing 
room three summer months for men in service, providing stationery, and 
twice in winter, serving crullers and chocolate. 1,089 visitors registered. It 
also kept headquarters for children's war garden registration. Ruth Wyllis 
Chapter originated official D. A. R. Roll of Honor Pin and handles it for N. S. 
D. A R. Mary Clap Wooster is putting into permanent form details of ser- 
vice of sons represented by stars on its service flag, with extracts from let- 
ters describing battles, army and navy experiences, photographs, and ancestors 
who have helped to establish democracy. 310 members of Mary Silliman 
Chapter signed for service in Bridgeport munitions factories. A member of 
Stamford Chapter designed a W. S. S. poster accepted by the Government. 
Two members, Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter, started and cared for war gar- 
den. Work recorded in all drives and food conservation. Grand total of 
expenditures, exclusive of Liberty Loans and War Savings Stamps, 
$216,724.72. 

MRS. WILLIAM HENRY WAIT, 

Publicity Director, War Relief Service Com. N. S. D. A. R., 
1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



29 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Rez>olution, previous to the 
entrance of the United States into the Great War. 



NATIONAL SURGICAL DRESSINGS COMMITTEE 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning . 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam . . 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam . 

Emma Hart Willard 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 

Faith Trumbull 

Faiany Ledyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow . . . 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter . . 

Hannah Woodruff 

Judea 

Katherine Gaylord 

^Lady Fenwick 

^Lucretia Shaw 

Marana Norton Brooks . . , 
Martha Pitkin Wolcott . . , 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge , . . 

Mary Silliman , 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial . . . 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

'Roger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys . 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker . 
Sarah Whitman Trumbull 
Sarah Williams Danielson 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrlngton Clarke . 
Wadsworth 



Cash 



$1,034.00 



to.oo 



1,000.00 
125.00 



95.00 
175.00 



$2,469.00 



Hospital 
Garments 



800 



100 



Surgical 
Supplies 



5,000 



150 



1,052 



1,060 
' 500 



6,560 



'4,050 hours' work. "1 box and bundle linen and cotton. 'For materials. 



30 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution, previous to the 
entrance of the United States into the Great War. 







RED CROSS 








,Ca»h 


Hospital 
Ceurments 


Surgical 
Supplies 


Knitted 
Garments 


Miscellaneous 




Pricecl 1 Not Priced 


Abi Humiston 


$2.00 
1,326.37 
54.60 
32.50 
57.50 






1 


Abigail Phelps 


2.197 




1 

1 _ 1 


Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 











Anna Warner Bailey 












Anne Brewster Fanning 












Anne Wood Elderkin 












Deborah Avery Putnam 














Dorothy Ripley 














Elizabeth Clarke Hull 


40.00 
615.00 












Elizabeth Porter Putnam 












^Emma Hart Willard 












Esther Stanley 


202.00 
30.00 
40.00 












Eunice Dennie Burr 












Eve Lear 












Faith Trumbull 












Fanny Ledyard 














'Freelove Baldwin Stow 






510 








Green Woods 


38.50 

25.00 

247.10 

100.00 

500.00 

45.00 

68.20 










Hannah Benedict Carter 












'Hannah Woodruff 


56 










Judea 










Katherine Gaylord 


100 
450 










Lady Fenwick 










Lucretia Shaw 










Marana Norton Brooks 












Martha Pitkin Wolcott 


117.04 

1,050.00 

76.00 




4.209 
6.390 


25 
24 








Mary Clap Wooster 






Mary Floyd Tallmadge 






Mary Silliman 












Mary Wooster 














Melicent Porter 


203.11 

50.00 

100.00 


575 


137 








Nathan Hale Memorial 








^Norwalk 












"Orford Parish 












'Phoebe Humphrey 














Putnam Hill 


959.50 

65.00 

122.50 

445.00 

117.50 

50.00 

34.14 

100.00 












Roger Sherman 












Ruth Hart 












Ruth Wyllys 










6,301 


'Sabra Trumbull 


250 


500 








^Sarah Ludlow 








Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 






















Sarah Whitman Hooker 













Sarah Whitman Trumbull 


90.00 
10.00 

218.00 
55.00 
71.00 

370.25 






110 






Sarah W^illiams Danielson 










Sibbil Dwight Kent 


32 










Stamford 






42.50 




Susan Carrington Clarke 

"Wadsworth 




.... I 






















1 




$7,727.81 


3,660 


11,746| 
i 


159 


$42.50| 6,301 



*"Bags." ^Use of Chapter House. '1 Box "No. 1." ^1 piece gauze. "Canned fruits 
and jellies. 'Use of Chapter room. 'Tobacco, pipes, cards. 'Including French 
Red Cross. 



31 



War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution, previous to the 
entrance of the United States into the Great War. 





Belgian Relief 


Men on the 
Border 


Various 
War 




Cash Artiolea 


Cash Articles 


Objects 


Abi Humiston 


$10.50 
51.57 










Abigail Phelps 










Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth .... 













Anna Warner Bailey 


162.50 

88.08 

150.00 






18 


* 29.00 


Anne Brewster Fanning 








'Anne Wood Elderkin 











Deborah Avery Putnam 









Dorothy Ripley 












Elizabeth Clarke Hull 


182.37 
37.63 










Elizabeth Porter Putnam 










Emma Hart Willard 










Esther Stanley 


205.44 










Eunice Dennie Burr 










Eve Lear 


256.00 
250.00 










Faith Trumbull 










Fannj' Ledyard 










Freelove Baldwin Stow 












-Green Woods 


36.00 




$52.50 






Hannah Benedict Carter 






Hannah Woodruff 












Judea 


100.00 











Katherine Gaylord 










Lady Fenwick 












Lucretia Shaw 


24.75 










Marana Norton Brooks 










Martha Pitkin Wolcott 


78.37 
29.48 










Mary Clap Wooster 










Mary Floyd Tallmadge 










Mary Silliman 










Mary Wooster 












Melicent Porter 


69.39 
1.77 










Nathan Hale Memorial 










Norwalk 










Orford Parish 


50.00 










Phoebe Humphrey 










Putnam Hill 


100.00 
83.78 
27.76 










Roger Sherman 










Ruth Hart 










Ruth Wyllys 










Sabra Trumbull 


109.80 

60.00 

369.26 


3,000! 28.00 


18 


' 10.00 


Sarah I^udlow 








Sarah Riggs Humphreys 




















Sarah Whitman Hooker 








1,000 




Sarah Whitman Trumbull .... 


20.00 
25.00 








Sarah Williams Danielson .... 










Sibbil Dwight Kent 










Stamford 




3 






' 60.00 


Susan Carrington Clarke 1 10.00 








Wadsworth 


305.00 




















$2,894.45 


3,000 


$80.50 


1,036 


$99.00 



'1 "barrel" silver coin. ^Stationery for men on border. '1 box clothing, value 
$42.50 *For yarn for Italy. "Blind relief. *For training boy at Plattsburg. 



32 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, ipip. 





FOR THE ARMY 




Mending Bjireau 


Comfort Equipment. 




Time 
Given 


Number of 
Garments 


Knitted Comfort 
Garments Bags 


Barrack 1 Scrap 
Bags Books 


Paper Lined 
vasts 














I 

1 




















Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 






141 






1 






















:::::: .:::.:i 












1 




59 












881 
405 




















Elizabeth Clarke Hull . . 




16 








Elizabeth Porter Putnani 




20 
692 








Emma Hart Willard 




?.2 








Esther Stanley 
























j]ve Lear 




95 20 
256 21 


50 


1 


10 


Faith Trumbull 










28 
300 










IS 





















Hannah Benedict Carter 




159 
390 






















Judea 
















1,500 

150 




350 




















LiUcretia Shaw 






























Martha Pitkin Wolcott 




















1,355 


25 









Mnrv Flnvd Tallmade'P ' 

















24 










Mary Wooster . . . 










70 






























12 

7 




Norwalk 


1 day a week 
by 5 members 


10 boxes 
and barrels 


218 
81 
54 


25 






Orford Parish 










j 






Putnam Hill 


















120 








Ruth Hart 






70 




60 




Ruth Wyllys 






20 
100 












596 




















Sarah Riggs Humphreys . 






510 


20 




20 












Sarah Whitman Hooker. . 






70 


25 




25 












Sarah W^illiams Danielson 






188 

1,782 

44 


40 
65 








Sibbil Dwight Kent 












Stamford 








1 


. Susan Carrington Clarke 
^iVadsworth 






100 


inn 




































9,381 1,068 


50 


1 

195 


10 



^12 ice bags. 



33 



IVar Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, 1919. 





FOR THE ARMY 
Comfort Equipment — Continued 




House- 
wives 


Property 
Bags 


Games 


Picture 
Puzzles 


Smileage 
1 Books 


Glasses o( 
Jelly 


Booka 


Abi Huiuiston 


1 
1 












Abigail Phelps 


1 _ _ 


1 








Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth. . . . ! 




1 




37 

20 
20 




Anna Warner Bailey 














Anne Brewster Fanning 














Anne W^ood Elderkin 














Deborah Avery Putnam 
















Dorothy Ripley 










15 


181 
3 

62 




Elizabeth Clarke Hull 












Elizabeth Porter Putriani 














Emma Hart Willard 












15 


Esther Stanley 
















Eunice Dennie Burr 














Eve Leai" 


10 


39 








50 


30 


Faith Trumbull 








1 


Fanny Ledvard 












100 




Freelove Baldv>''in Stow 










1 




Green Woods 



































Judea 




1 ! 




50| 


Katherine Gaylori. 


350 


100 








3G . - 


Lady Fenwick 










18 




Lucretia Shaw 













Marana Norton Brooks 














Martha Pitkin Wolcott 














Mpry Clap Wooster 


25 









800 




Mary Flovd Tallmadge 










Mary Silliman 






2 









84 
2 

200 

25 

150 


880 


Mary Wooster 












Melicent Porter 














Nathan Hale Memorial 














Norwalk 







50 


10 






Orford Parish 106 






Phoebe Humphrey 














Putnam Hill 












60 
388 
186 




Roger Sherman 














Ruth Hart 














Ruth Wvllvs 













s 


Sabra Trumbull 


50 




1 

1 




75 
75 




Sarah Ludlow 


1 








Sarah Riggs Humphreys .... 













8 


Sarah Rogers 1 














Sarah Whitman Hooker 1 








30 


4 

12 




Sarah Whitman Trumbull . . . | 






100 




Sarah Williams Danielsou ... 1 








Sibbil Dwight Kent | 






34 




144 




Stamford 








Susan Carrington Clarke 












Wadsworth 










48 
















516 


164 


52 


144 


45 


2,824 


934 



*$15. =3 gals, jam, 29 qts. marmalade. '"Many." *"306 qts." ^3 bushels grapes for 



jam kitchen. 



34 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, 1919. 





FOR THB^ ARMY 




Miscellaneous 


Vehicles 




Articles 


Cost 1 


Cash 


Ambulances 


Abi Humiston 






1 




Abigail Phelps 








Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 










Anna Warner Bailey .... 










Anne Brewster Fanning . . 










Anne Wood Elderkin .... 










Deborah Avery Putnam . . 










Dorothy Ripley 










Elizabeth Clarke Hull. ... 










Elizabeth Porter Putnam . . 










Emma Hart Willard 


Canes 








Esther Stanley 








Eunice Dennie Burr 










Eve Lear 


206 mag. 37 letters, 3( 
postals, canes, boxes 


) 

$41.00 


$25.00 




Faith Trumbull 




Fanny Ledyard 








P^reeloVe Baldwin Stow . . . 











Green Woods 






1 


Hannah Benedict Carter . 








Hannah Woodruff 






1 


Judea 






10.00 
127.00 




Ivatherine Gaylord 






$8,000.00 


Lady P^enwick 


Games, fruit, cake, books 
lies to Allingtown Hosp 












Marana Norton Brooks . . . 










Martha Pitkin Wolcott . . . 










Mary Clap Wooster 










Mary Floyd Tallmadge . . . 












209 magazine articles, 81 
clippings 


31 


i 


Marv Wooster 








Melicent Porter 










Nathan Hale Memorial . . . 


50 magazines 








Norwalk 








Orford Parish 






10.00 




Phoebe Humphrey 








Putnam Hill 










Roger Sherman 










Ruth Hart 


18 miscellaneous articles 

1 cot 
Linen, cloth., books, mag 








Ruth Wvllys 




933.00 
10.00 




Pabra Trumbull 






Sarah Ludlow 








Sarah Riggs Humphreys. . 
Sarah Rogers 


5 Christmas boxes 


60.00 






5.00 




Sarah W^hitman Hooker . . 


Candy, tobacco, chocolat 

purses, testament, toile 

articles 


e 500.00 

t 




'Sarah Whitman Trumbull 






Sarah W^illiams Danielson 


1 . 




........ 




Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 


140 quarts canned good 
6 hospital equipments 


s 






90.00 
. 1 




5.00 


Susan Carrington Clarke 








.1 


1 






• 1 

1 


1 






$691.00 


$1,120.00 


$8,005.00 



'2 years' subscription to magazines. 



35 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, ipip. 











FOR 


THE ARMY 










Hospitality 




Box 
Lunches 


Xmu Celebrations 
Gifts Cash 


Hospi- 
tality 
Houses 


Hospi- Mess 


Entertainment 




tality 
Rooms 


Fund 


Homes 


Tables 


Public 
Places 






















Ahie^ail Phelns . . 




















Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 
Anna Warner Bailey 


































Anne Brewster Fanning . . 


















Anne Wood Elderkin 





















Deborah Avery Putnam 




















Dorothy Ripley 




















Elizabeth Clarke Hull ... I 1 

















Elizabeth Porter Putnam 









.■.■.■.■.■'.":::: 










Emma Hart V^illard 




















Esther Stanley 




















Eunice Dennie Burr 




















Eve Lear 



















Faith Trumbull ........ 




















Fanny Ledyard 
















50 




Freelove Baldwin Stow . . . 




500 














Green Woods 


















Hannah Benedict Carter. . 




















Hannah Woodruff 





















Judea 




















Katherine Gaylord 




















Lady Fenwick 




















Lucretia Shaw 










$40 










Marana Norton Brooks . . 


















Martha Pitkin Wolcott . . 


















Mary Clap Wooster 




















Mary Floyd Tallmadge . . 




















Mary Silliman 
















i 


^Mary Wooster 


2,500 


500 


$800 




$650 






Melicent Porter 








1 


Nathan Hale Memorial . . 










10 






1 . . . , 

50 


Norwalk 


8 












50 


Orford Parish 
















Phoebe Humphrey 
















..... 


Putnam Hill 














10 
4 


10 


Roger Sherman 


300 












'200 

gi 


Ruth Hart 












Ruth Wyllys 
















2 


.... 


Sabra Trumbull 


















Sarah Ludlow 








































Sarah Rogers 




















Sarah Whitman Hooker . . 










109 










Sarah Whitman Trumbull 


















Sarah Williams Danielson 




















'Sibbil Dwight Kent .... 




24 
















Stamford 












30 






Susan Carrington Clarke. .'( 




25 





1 








Wadsworth 1 




$200 













1 
















~*>« 


2,808 


1,024 


$825 


$200 


$159 


$650 


44 


166 


200 



'Community song service, 500 songs "Connecticut," Thanksgiving dinner $75 
'"A great deal." 'Christmas letters. 



36 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, ipip. 



FOR THE NAVY 



Concerted State Work for the U. S. S. 

"Connecticut" 

Sent thru State Chairman, Mrs. Barce 



Knitted Comfort 
Garments Kits 



Eovelopss 

of 
Clippings 



Misc. 



For "Connecticut" and Other Boats 



Knitted 
Garments 



Comfort E"^'''!"" „ . 
,,. of Cash 

•^'t* Clippings 





4 
30 












1 




Abigail Phelps 










1 
















Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 


6 

6 

12 

12 

12 

6 

6 

6 

23 

6 

25 

6 

7 

8 

4 

8 

6 

6 

6 

7 

t 

6 
12 
66 
36 
















12 






' 6 
120 




































28 
39 


25 






Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam .... 
Emma Hart Willard 
























25 


















3 








Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 














8 


41 


= 34 


52 
' 60 




7 




"F^^ith Triimhull 


$25.00 
























66 































































15 
19 












































*160 








Marana Norton Brooks 

Martha Pitl^in Wolcott 
































5 

12 

* 












Mary Floyd Tallmadge 





96 
12 

100 
















7 










4 

7 

15 

16 

6 

6 


12 


1 


















$34.00 








' 80 








Orford Parish 














Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 
















35 


28 




'208 

18 

35 

"700 

"580 








Roger Sherman 






25.00 


Ruth Hart 


40 
32 

6 

6 
13 

6 
45 

5 














Ruth Wvllvs . . . 


47 













Sabra Trumbull 













Sarah Ludlow 


. . . . 













Sarah Riggs Humphreys .... 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 


100 




























26 


25 




31 















Sarah W^illiams Danielson 

















Sibbil Dwight Kent 


5 

5 

16 

8 


10 


15 




1 » 32 

•=287 

" 92 

17 









Stamford 









Susan Carrington Clarke .... 


3 


85 





























Unidentified 


585 
929 


278 


2071 34 


2,856 


32r 7 


$84.00 


Total 


1 1,5141 1 1 1 1 1 1 





















'For "Connecticut." ''Wipes. 'Outfit for submarine. "125 for sub-chaser, 35 for 
naval hospital. ^151 loose clippings. «A large box. '70 for "Connecticut;" 
"Coney," "Patrol" and "Crystobel." *154 for "Connecticut," 54 for others. "For 
"Gresham" and sub-chaser 51. '"180 for sub-marine B3, 400 for others. "For 
"U. S. S. Brooklyn" and "New York," etc. '=For coast patrol, transport "Henderson" 
and Navy League. "U, S. S. "Connecticut" and "New York." 



17 

War Work, Connecticut DaugJitcrs of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared zvar to April, ipip. 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 
Anna Warner Bailey .... 
Anne Brewster Fanning . 
Anne Wood Elderkin . . . . 
Deboi-ah Avery Putnam . . 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull . . . 
Elizabeth Porter Putnam . 
Emma Hart Willard . . . . 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Bur 

Eve Lear . , 

Faith Trumbull 

Fanny Ledyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow . . 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter . , 

Hannah Woodruff 

Judea 

Katherine Gaylord 

Lady Fenwick 

Lucretia Shaw 

Marana Norton Brooks . , 
Martha" Pitkin Wolcott . . 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge . . . 

Mary Sillinian 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial . . 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

Roger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys , 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys . 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker . . 
Sarah Whitman Trumbull 
Sarah Williams Danielson 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke . 
Wadsworth 



FOR THE NAVY 



Gifta to Individual Sailors 



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251 20 



136 



H69 



748 



25 



48 



93 



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40 



$75 
110 



20 



320 



$151 $10 



45 



$525 






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54 



=212 



21 



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•"Much." 230 knitted articles, 24 wipes. 'For Coast Guard. ^"Endless Sunday din- 
ners for sailors in members' homes." ""Boxes." «200 magazines and 12 books. 
'Miscellanies. 



38 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 

United States declared war to April, 1919. 



.2UI-Q.0 5 



FOR AVIATION 
Mineola, Long Island, N. Y. 



Knitted 
GarmeBts 



Priced 



Clippings 



Miscel- 
lanies 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth .... 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam 

Emma Hart Willard 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear | 

Faith Trumbull I . . 

Fanny Ledyard j . . 

Preelove Baldwin Stow I 

Green Woods | . . 

Hannah Benedict Carter ..■....!.. 

Hannah Woodruff I . . 

Judea I 

Katherine Gaylord I 

Lady Fenwick . 

Lucretia Shaw 1 ' 

Marana Norton Brooks | . . 

Martha Pitkin Wolcott I . . 

Mary Clap Wooster . 

Mary Floyd Tallniadge j 

Mary Silliman 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

I'oger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull .... 
Sarah Williams Danielson .... 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Wadsworth 

Individuals 



17 

90 



145 



20 



44 



13 



102 
24 



51 



25 
89 
77 
66 
30 
62 
37 
41 
66 
37 
37 

158 
30 

118 
82 
60 

174 
64 



$25.00 



67.45 
79.00 
32.97 



28.00 



300.00 
18.00 



94.00 



185.00 
73.00 



36 
57 
90 
38 
90 
72 
66 

259 

169 

270 
93 

113 
50 

102 
73 
33 
30 
4 
58 

280 
33 
31 

119 
60 
60 
38 
25 

113 
43 

116 
90 



35.00 

74.84 



273.15 
231.00 
365.00 
109.83 
124.49 
55.00 



100.00 
305.50 



40.00 
86.00 
71.95 
74.90 



75.00 
120.00 



47 



16 



654 



Unidentified 
Total . . . 



cash 



3,964 $3,044.08 
1,003.47 



|$4,047.55 



47 



27 



Pairs of kid gloves for vests, 
belts. ^Face cloths. 



"For sub-chaser, 125, see "other boats." 



'Money 



39 



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United States declared war to April, 1919. 





FOR OVERSEAS FORCES. 




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Christmas Gifts 


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['acketf 1 Boxes | Cost 


Articles 


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Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 
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1 












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A.iine Brewster Fanning 


















A.nne Wood Elderkin 


















Deborah Avery Putnam 


















Dorothy Ripley 


















Elizabeth Clarke Hull 


















Elizabeth Porter Putnani 


















Emma Hart Willard 






8 


5 










Esther Stanley 














Eunice Dennie Burr 


















Eve Lear 


150 






2 


32 


$100.00 




$133.00 


Faith Trumbull 








Fanny Ledyard 


40 


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25 


10 


15.00 






Freelove Baldwin Stow . . . 










Green W^oods 


















Hannah Benedict Carter 


















Hannah Woodruff 


97 


















































Lady Fenwick 
















6.50 







































Martha Pitkin Wolcott 




























125 
























Mary Silliraan 


















Mary Wooster / 











2 


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Orford Parish 1 










' 84.75 























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750 




60 


5 












16 








Ruth Hart 




60 










63.00 


Ruth Wvllvs 
















Sabra Trumbull 




































Sarah Riggs Humphreys . . 


63 








65 


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1 








3 


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25 












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20.00 


Stamford . . 






26 
100 


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Wadsworth 








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1,100 


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163 


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227 


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Anna Warner Bailey .... 
Anne Brewster Fanning . 
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Deborah Avery Putnam . . 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull . . . 
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15,000.00 

547.11 

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146.64 

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300.00 

325.00 


















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315 










150 










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Marana Norton Brooks . . 
Martha Pitkin Wolcott . . 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge . . 


82.50 

1,181.00 

3,451.15 

184.45 














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Nathan Hale Memorial . . 


30.00 

6.40 

861.00 

10,786.00 

50.00 
































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110.00 

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Qars^h Whitman Trnmhilll 1^ C\(\(\ 00 
















Sarah Williams Danielson 
Sibbil Dwight Kent .... 


















2,125.00 
2,996.25 








218 
















195.75 


25 


Susan Carrington Clarke 














2,000.00 


































$101,677.73 


3,135 


19,526 


4,767 


716 


85 


$928.40 


887 



'One equipment for patient. =31/2 pieces gauze. 'Fracture pillows. ^Knitting ma- 
chines at $220 and 1 cutting machine at $150. "Rent of workroom paid by a 
member. 



51 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared zvar to April, 1919. 





FOR THE 


RED CROSS 




Work given but Red Cross materials used 




Hospital 
garments 


Surgical 
supplies 


Knitted 
garments 


Comfort Refugee Houie- 
kits garments wives | 


Pieces of 
Linen 


Abi Humiston 














A.bigail Phelps 


1,623 
350 

1,000 

1,077 
248 

1,990 

25 

2 

153 

580 

103 


15,430 

546 



809 
304 
294 
153 
414 
720 








Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 


6 








Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning .... 
Anne Wood Elderkin 




1 




65 
59 















Deborah Avery Putnam .... 
Dorothy Ripley 
















Elizabeth Clarke Hull 


....... 

73 

325 


486 

76 

1,230 

1,000 

500 

539 


18 








Elizabetli Porter Putnam . . . 








Emma Hart Willard 


6 
2,000 








Esther Stanley (sheets) .... 








Eunice Dennie Burr 








Eve Lear 


483 

51 

400 


16,710 

47 

. . 2,500 


> 16 








EaJth Trumbull 








Eanny Ledvard 


209 


50 








Freelove Baldwin Stow .... 








Green Woods 
















Hannah Benedict Carter .... 
















Hannah Woodruff 




23,923 


156 

700 


24 








Judea 










Katherine Gaylord 


300 


3,740 










Lady Fenwick 












Lucretia Shaw 
















Marana Norton Brooks 
















Martha Pitkin Wolcott .... 


4,500 
5,806 


70,000 
80,657 


8,000 
4,810 










Mary Clap Wooster 


430 








Mary Floyd Tallmadge 








Mary Silliman 




418 
950 


5,767 
1,119 










Mary Wooster 












Melicent Porter 












Nathan Hale Memorial .... 


811 


200 


750 










Norwalk 










Orford Parish 


1,018 




466 


18 








Phoebe Humphrey 









Putnam Hill 
















Roger Sherman 


488 


1 













Ruth Hart 


1,859 


1 226 












^Ruth Wyllys 


22,3211 18,879 
200 500 
498 1,368 
314 470 

43 

3,246 5,000 

30,000 

160 


1,369 
150 
555 


156 

200 

43 








Sabra Trumbull 








Sarah Ludlow 


215 






Sarah Riggs Humphreys . . . 






Sarah Rogers 


500 
879 
510 
458 










Sarah Whitman Hooker .... 










Sarah Whitman Trumbull . . 


50 








Sarah Williams Danielson . . 




' 


Sibbil Dwight Kent 


1 






Stamford 


47| 9,957 
1,9501 


938 

339 

1,000 


612 


137 


370 91 


Susan Carrington Clarke . . . 




Wadsworth 


4 
















1 
51,646 281,939 


35,220 


3,757 


352 


370 91 



*Also 1,003 articles for filling. -"One member stamped 25,000 labels. 

Where no figures are given the reports state that it was "impossible to keep records." 



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War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared 7var to April, 1919. 



LIBERTY LOANS 



First Loan 



Chapters 



State 



Individual 
Daughters 



Sold by 
Daughters 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam 

Emma Hart Willard 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 

Faith Trumbull 

Fanny Ledyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter 

Hannah Woodruff 

Judea 

Katherine Gaylord 

Lady Fenwick 

Lucretia Shaw 

Marana Norton Brooks 

Martha Pitkin Wolcott , 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge 

Mary Silliman 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

Roger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull 

Sarah Williams Danielson 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Wadsworth 

Ellsworth Memorial Association. 



;ioo 

50 



100 



150 
50 
300 
100 
200 
200 



100 
200 



100 
200 



50 



50 
200 
100 

50 



50 
100 



50 
100 

50 
100 



100 
50 



100 
200 
50 
300 
100 



$31,850 
4,800 

15,000 
1,750 

29,550 
2,600 
2,000 



1,000 
10,450 
37,600 
62,000 
102,300 
10,500 
31,300 
24,200 
23,150 



7,550 
2,500 
9,000 
2,450 
5,700 

15,000 
6,525 

24,900 
7,650 

20,000 
3,200 



3,550 

15,850 

31,850 

300 

12,400 



10,850 

177,500 

11,350 



34,000 

2,800 

21,500 

25,000 

2,000 

9,400 

3,000 

10.000 

37,000 



$3,650 



$500 



$500 



$872,975 



55 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 

United States declared war to April, 1919. 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth . . . . 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Planning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam 

Emma Hart Willard ......... 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 

Faith Trumbull 

Fanny Dedyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter 

Hannah Woodruff 

Jadea 

Katherine Gaylord 

Lady Fenwick 

Lucretia Shaw • 

Marana Norton Brooks 

Martha Pitkin Wolcott 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge 

Mary Sillimau 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

Roger Sherman • . . . . 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull . . . . 
Sarah Williams Danielson . . . . 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Wadsworth 

Utility Fund 

Ellsworth Memorial Association 



LIBERTY LOANS 



Second Loan 



Chapters 



$50 
100 



100 
50 



IDO 



50 



500 



Additional 



50 



50 
1,500 



1,000 



100 



50 



50 



100 
150 



$4,000 



State 



)100 
500 



5600 



[ndividual 
Daughters 



$500 

6,850 

5,700 

20,050 

700 

52,450 

7,500 

1,500 

21,400 

21.650 

31,650 

52,600 

54,600 

74,200 

10,050 

6,450 

10,550 

5,000 



Sold by 
Daughters 



14,500 
1,900 

16,000 
2,250 

17,600 



14,300 
46,850 
11,150 
68,950 
1,850 



5,800 
6,900 
27,750 
1,000 
1,800 



25,850 

149,600 

11,800 

5,750 
44,600 

1,650 

9,000 
28,300 

2,250 
13,500 



8,550 
58,000 



$980,850 
162,650 

$1,143,500 



56 



War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, 1919. 



LIBERTY LOANS 



Third Loan 



Chapters 



State 



Individual 
Daughters 



Sold by 
Daughters 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth . . . 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam .... 

Emma Hart Willard 

Esther Stanley » . . . . 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 

F'aith Trumbull 

Fanny Ledyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter 

Hannah Woodruff 

Judea 

Katherine Gaylord 

Lady Fenwick 

Lucretia Shaw 

Marana Norton Brooks 

Martha Pitkin Wolcott 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge 

Mary Silliman 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill , 

Roger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys , 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull 

Sarah Williams Danielson 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Wadsworth 

Ellsworth Memorial Association 
Patriotic Education Fund . . . . 



$100 
50 



50 
50 



500 
50 



100 
50 



500 

200 

50 



100 
200 



25 



100 



50 



100 



$500 
500 



$500 
63,300 

3,950 
11,050 

1,250 
46,250 

3,700 



17,750 

9,500 

6,900 

44,000 

60,000 

9,600 

10,000 

42,500 

16,450 

10,900 



33,950 

1,700 
11,500 

3,650 
51,425 
15,000 

7,400 
55,850 
23,200 
41,900 

8,350 



5,700 

15,000 

30,600 

800 

9,300 



15,450 

94,750 

11,150 

2,400 

26,250 

1,650 

8,500 

5,450 

3,000 

18,000 



15,000 
56,000 



525,950 
12,650 



5,000 
20,000 



42,500 



22,000 



44,050 
' 2,000 



5,700 



11,900 
32,200 



250 



$2,2751 



$l,000i $930,9251 $224,200 



57 



War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, ipip. 



LIBERTY LOANS 



Fourth Loan 



Chapters 



State 



Individual 
Daughters 



Sold by 
Daughters 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth . . . . 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam 

Emma Hart Willard 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 

Faith Trumbull 

Fanny Ledyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter 

Hannah Woodruff 

Judea 

Katherine Gaylord 

Lady Fenwick 

Lucretia Shaw 

Marana Norton Brooks 

Martha Pitkin Wolcott 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge 

Mary Silliman 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

Roger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull 

Sarah Williams Danielson . . . . 

Sibbil Dv/ight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Wadsworth 

Ellsworth Memorial Association 



1100 
50 



250 



500 
50 



50 



200 
50 



50 



50 
250 



50 
100 
100 



100 



150 



;ioo 



$1,050 

67,750 
8,000 

17,150 
l.v'uu 

59,150 



8,250 

7,800 

8,650 

58,650 

50,975 

23,400 

9,450 

5,550 

48.000 

17,500 



43,850 
3,000 



2,750 
52,250 
20,000 
10,900 
98,300 
31,700 
58,950 
10,150 



6,750 
25,550 
27,650 

1,000 



21,400 

150,150 

21,250 

7,750 
40,000 

5,100 

7,850 
13,350 

5,250 
60,850 
18,600 
38,000 
62,000 



1138,950 



90,350 



288,700 



14,300 

14,400 

8,700 

37,450 



31,550 
4,450 



17,000 



43,050 

115,050 

22,250 



5,^00 



5,600 
40,000 

6.100 
11,600 



35,250 
160,000 



40,00^0 
19,0170 
12,850 
105,100 
7,500 
14,100 
10,600 



$2,100 



$100 



$1,237,375 



$1,299,400 



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War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, 1919. Supplement for May, ipip. 



LIBERTY LOANS: Fifth or "Victory" Loan 



Chapters 



State 



Individual 
Daughters 



Sold by 
Daughters 



Abi Humiston 

Abigail Phelps 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth . . . . 

Anna Warner Bailey 

Anne Brewster Fanning 

Anne Wood Elderkin 

Deborah Avery Putnam 

Dorothy Ripley 

Elizabeth Clarke Hull 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam 

Emma Hart Willard 

Esther Stanley 

Eunice Dennie Burr 

Eve Lear 

Faith Trumbull 

Fanuy Ledyard 

Freelove Baldwin Stow 

Green Woods 

Hannah Benedict Carter 

Hannah Woodruff 

Judea 

Katherine Gaylord 

Lady Fenwick 

Lucretia Shaw 

Marana Norton Brooks 

Martha Pitkin Wolcott 

Mary Clap Wooster 

Mary Floyd Tallmadge 

Mary Silliraan 

Mary Wooster 

Melicent Porter 

Nathan Hale Memorial 

Norwalk 

Orford Parish 

Phoebe Humphrey 

Putnam Hill 

Roger Sherman 

Ruth Hart 

Ruth Wyllys 

Sabra Trumbull 

Sarah Ludlow 

Sarah Higgs Humphreys 

Sarah Rogers 

Sarah Whitman Hooker 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull 

Sarah Williams Danielson . . . . 

Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Stamford 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Wadsworth 

Ellsworth Memorial Association 



$50 



100 



1,200 
" ' 50 



100 



50 
100 



50 



$500 



$350 
70,300 
6,250 
9,000 
1,400 
33,400 
1,150 



30,000 
12,450 

3,000 
44,450 
34,150 

4,750 
11,500 
34,000 
15,850 
26,500 
800 
18,700 

4,150 
53,000 

1,150 
28,900 
10,000 

3,300 

42,750 

19,700 

320,000 

18,350 



6,500 

11,500 

24,950 

850 



2,000 

9,600 

78,350 

28,900 

8,650 

33,450 



4,700 
8,000 
4,250 
10,900 
15,200 
35,650 
20,700 



360,000 



1,850 
8,800 



11,500 



224,700 
2,000 



24,850 



Total for Fifth Loan 

Totals in previous four Loans 
Stamford: additional report 

previous Loans 

Lucretia Shaw: ditto 



for 



$1,700 
12,275 



$500 $1,163,450 
2,200 4,377,175 



12,000 
2,200 



$633,700 
2,243,000 



Grand Total Five Loans 



$13,9751 



$2,7001 $5,554,8251 $2,876,700 



WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. 
Total W. S. S. investment— partial report — $30,506.63 
Total Thrift stamps — partial report — $13,851.00 

Total certificates — partial report — $2,000.00 



Sold $19,641 



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United States declared zvar to April, ipip. 





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64 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the United 
States declared War to April, ipip. 



Miscellaneous Work. 
(Continued) 

D. A. R. Work Rooms. 

Five chapters loaned or maintained work rooms for Red Cross work, and two 
chapters gave the use of their chapter houses. 

Eve Lear chapter members worked throughout the war in two groups, one at 
the Red Cross rooms and one, known as the "Thursday Circle" in a private 
house. 

Deborah Avery Futnam chapter maintained a room at an expense of $io and 
Hannah Woodruff chapter at an expense of $25. 

Phoebe Humphrey chapter loaned the use of its chapter room to the Red 
Cross, and a member of Sabra Trumbull chapter gave the work rooms for the 
Red Cross, furnishing heat and lights at a total cost of $350. 

A member of Sarah Whitman Trumbull chapter maintained the surgical dress- 
ings room of the Red Cross. 

Sarah Whitman Hooker chapter maintained work rooms for eighteen months 
until they were taken over by the Red Cross, the money being contributed. A 
total expense of $385 was reported for rooms and their maintenance but much 
more was spent. 

Freelove Baldwin Stow chapter of Milford placed its chapter house entirely at 
the disposal of the Red Cross throughout the war for work-rooms and general 
headquarters at an expense of $250, while the historic Putnam Cottage at Green- 
wich, the headquarters of General Israel Futnam and property of Putnam Hill 
chapter, was the scene of much Red Cross work. 



65 

War Work, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution since the 
United States declared war to April, ipip. 





New 


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loped since the Armistice 


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Gifts for Sick and Wounded Men Returning to 
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Lady Fenwick 
























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Marana Norton Brooks. . 
























Martha Pitkin Wolcott . . 
























Mary Clap Wooster 
























Mary Floyd Tallmadge. . 
























Mary Silliman 










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Sarah Whitman Trumbull 






















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*Hospitals served: Walter Reed, Washington, D. C; Allingtown, New Haven; Navy 
League, Norwalk; Camp Devens. 'Automobile rides for wounded men. =For Walter 
Reed. ="Canes." *Also automobile rides for wounded men. "^Making refugee gar- 
ments. 'For Walter Reed. 'For Walter Reed and Navy League. «59 yards cloth. 
"For Camp Devens. '"One member gives $25 a week toward restoration of a village. 
""Cards" for Walter Reed. "One member taking course in reconstruction at Bryn 
Mawr in connection with Y. W. C .A. "For Walter Reed. 



66 

Official Positions and Individual Records of Members, other than Red Cross. 

(Transcribed chiefly from chapter blanks). 

Abigail Phelps: one woman was a chairman on "Women's Activities" ; one mem- 
ber, Mrs. Abbie Eno Curtiss, was hostess with the entire charge of the Of- 
ficers' House in Hoboken under the War Camp Community Service for 
two months in 1918; three were members of the War Bureau, one being 
on the E^xecutive Board ; one member was on the Woman's Committee, 
State Council of Defense. 

Abigail Wolcott Ellsivorth: two were the secretary and a member of the War Bu- 
reau ; chairman committee of Information on Soldiers and Sailors ; chair- 
man local Liberty Loan Committee ; president local committee State Coun- 
cil of Defense. 

Anna Warner Bailey: chairman of Woman's Committee. 

Anne Brewster Fanning: chairman Third Liberty Loan Committee. 

Anne Wood Elderkin: two members planted and took entire charge of a war 
garden. 

Dorothy Ripley: one member served as first lieutenant on one of the teams of 
Minute Women ; chairman Home Economic Committee. 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam: secretary of Women's War Bureau. Captains and 
workers in all drives. 

Esther Stanley: a member took a course at Storrs and gave free instruction. 

Eunice Dennie Burr: chairman of Home Economics Committee ; chairman Wom- 
an's Liberty Loan Committee. 

Eve Lear: county chairman of the Home Making Department of New Haven 
County Farm Bureau ; coimty chairman. State Council of Defense ; county 
chairman of Conservation of the City of New Haven ; member of Speak- 
ers' Bureau ; county chairman in Hoover Pledge Campaign. 

Faith Trumbull: secretary Social Service League ; chairman W. S. S. drive ; sec- 
retary of the community canning activities. 

Frcclove Baldzvin Stoiv: chairmrai of Home Defense. 

Hannah Benedict Carter: Members on War Bureau, Council of Defense, War 
Risk Insurance and Home Economics Committees. 

Hannah Woodruff: chairman Town Council of Defense, member State Council 
of Defense ; member Woman's Liberty Loan Committee. Another mem- 
ber secretary Town Y. M. C. A. drive. Town Red Cross War Fund drive 
and Town Red Cross Membership Committee. 

Judea: chairman Woman's Liberty Loan Committee ; chairman Home Econom- 
ics Committee ; chairman Town Council of Defense ; a member conducted 
the Community Canning kitchen. 

Katherine Gaylord: this chapter was represented by members on all patriotic 
committees appointed by the mayor. The activities of Mrs. Florence E. 
D. Muzzy, organizing regent, in Bristol, New Mexico, Colorado and New 



York were particularly varied. She organized the National Surgical 
Dressings work in Bristol in May and June, 191 5, and serv^ed as super- 
visor until it was absorbed by the Red Cross ; organized a Red Cross chap- 
ter in Carlsbad, New Mexico ; helped with Liberty Chorus work ; pub- 
lished patriotic propaganda in the Bristol Press and other papers in New 
Mexico and Colorado ; conducted a large correspondence with American, 
French and Belgian soldiers ; was "Marraine de guerre" to twelve poilus ; 
received and distributed one hundred and three sweaters to French, Bel- 
gians and Americans ; supplied music to hospitals and camps ; introduced 
Comfort Packet work for Allies in Bristol, New Mexico and Colorado ; 
collected books for soldiers and entertained many in New York at din- 
ner, etc., and contributed liberally to French, Belgian, Jewish, Armenian 
and American Relief. Another member, her daughter, received a United 
States Government license to drive Government car, was "marraine" to a 
French soldier, and an American boy at Camp Wright ; worked in the Sol- 
diers' Gift Library (New York Public Library) as a trained librarian 
sorting out undesirable books, and arranging books to paste and pack, and 
carried on library department for a friend in order to retain position for 
her until her return from France. 

Lady Fenwick: chairman of Liberty Loan Committee ; chairman of Soldiers' Rec- 
ords Committee. 

Lucretia Shaiv: town chairman, Council of Defense, Home Economics. War 
Camp Community Canteen. On Y. W. C. A. Hostess House Board ; 
chairman War Bureau. The Vice-President General from Connecticut, 
Mrs. Minor, was a member of the Speakers' Bureau. 

Marana Norton Brooks: a member had charge of community canning. 

Mary Clap IVooster: four members were motor messengers ; one member devel- 
oped a worn out farm ; one member at Hostess House, Camp Wadsworth, 
from December, 1917, to December, 1918. Members were the chairman 
Woman's Liberty Loan Committee of New Haven ; first lieutenant of 
Minute Women ; social worker at Winchester's ; an officer in Y. W. C. A. 
Hostess House. Two members nursed for three weeks at Camp Tay- 
lor, Kentucky. 

Mary Floyd Tallmadgc: one member conducted the canning kitchen. Anothei 
member, the State Regent, was chairman local Woman's Liberty Loan 
Committee, member of State Liberty Loan Committee, member of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee of the Woman's Committee, State Council of Defense, 
and a member of the Speakers' Bureau, State Council of Defense. An- 
other was manager on a scientific food conservation basis, of workmen's 
meals, the luncheons and dinners, of over one thousand workmen of the 
Chase Metal Works. 

Mary Silliman: three hundred and ten members registered for war service; one 
member worked in munition factory, and was also volunteer nurse in in- 
fluenza epidemic. Members served for five weeks in influenza canteen. 
Member was Minute Woman speaker. 

Mary IVooster: one member state chairman War Victory Commission. One 
member raised money for furlough homes. One member obtained a col- 
lection of musical instruments and five hundred records with songs and 



68 

manuscripts for camps. One member wrote the song "Connecticut," five 
hundred copies of which were sent to Forts Wright, Terr}' and Michie. 

Nathan Hale Memorial: secretary of town War Bureau. 

Orford Parish: one member was chairman of influenza emergency hospital; also 
responsible for sale of $100,000 in War Savings Stamps ; gave entire time 
and her motor with chauffeur for eighteen months. 

Putnam Hill: one member an agent for Military Census, New York City; one 
gave automobile service twenty-five hours ; executive secretary of "Fur- 
lough Homes" movement ; speaker for the Rehabilitation of the Cripple ; 
speaker, Mayor's Committee in New York ; lecturer for Belgian Mission ; 
one member organized Training Camp for Women. 

Roger Sherman: canning demonstrations by members. One member on canteen 
duty in New York. Chairman Canteen Committee. One member served 
in emergency hospital in New Haven one night from nine p. m. to six 
a. m., dish washing, scrubbing and laying out body for burial. 

Rtith Wyllys: state chairman Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, Mrs. Morgan 
G. Bulkeley. General, Housewives' Army, Mrs. Edward W. W. Hayward. 
President McCall Mission, President Junior McCall. Two members on 
committee for Wellesley Unit. State Chairman Girls' Patriotic League. 
Two members on Connecticut State Council of Defense, and two in Motor 
Department. 

Sabra Trunihnll: head of National Surgical Dressings committee, local branch. 
Officer in Woman's Committee, State Council of Defense. 

Sarah Ludloiv: chairman local finance committee. State Council of Defense. 
Chairman Home Economics Committee. 

Sarah Whitman Hooker: six members spent thirteen hundred and eighty-eight 
hours in gardening and twenty-five members canned four thousand seven 
hundred and eighty-one quarts of fruit and vegetables. 

Sarah Whitman Trumbull: four members were officers of Civic League, and two 
were its sponsors. Members on Council of Defense and State Motor 
Corps ; one member was chairman of local Motor Corps. Eight served as 
registrars in registration drive. 

Sarah Williams Daniclson: members conducted food and cooking demonstrations. 

Stamford: chairmen of drives, etc. 

Wadsworth: had a team in Food Conservation pledge card drive which won the 
prize for getting largest number of signatures in a certain length of time. 
Four members were chairmen of different teams and two had charge of 
the tabulation of food pledge cards for their churches for several weeks 
and reported to Washington. Six members worked many hours on reg- 
istration cards for the draft. One member was asked by the War Bu- 
reau to organize a Girls' Patriotic League and became its chairman, with 
a membership of four hundred. 



69 
ORIGINAL WAR WORK AND COLLECTIVE STATE WORK. 

LUCRETIA SHAW CHAPTER'S EMERGENCY SUPPLIES OF KNITTED GARMENTS. 

This work, instituted by Lucretia Shaw chapter of New London, for the com- 
fort of both soldiers and sailors was an emergency measure and was unique of 
its kind. 

When the sailors began to gather in rapidly increasing numbers at the New 
London naval bases, the local Red Cross chapter found itself unable to handle 
the large local problem in addition to the quotas of knitted garments required of 
it by the Atlantic Division. 

Hence it gladly welcomed the proposal of Lucretia Shaw chapter to meet the 
emergency by collecting and giving out knitted garments directly to the men do- 
ing coast guard duty and also to many who sailed directly overseas before hav- 
ing an opportunity to get the warm clothing from the Red Cross at the time its 
rooms were open. Many a sailor lad has sailed for France thanking Lucretia 
Shaw chapter of New London for the warm sweaters, helmets and mittens, etc., 
wliich he would not otherwise have had. 

This work was begun soon after this country entered the war and was kept 
up until October, 191 8, when the Government appointed a field director, who took 
over all stations at New London. Thus the D. A. R. emergency supply work 
was no longer needed and the chapter voted to discontinue this service which 
had won much appreciation and praise from the local Red Cross. The field di- 
rector also recognized the value of the service rendered and would have liked it 
to continue if duplication could have been avoided. 

Lucretia Shaw chapter at first undertook this work alone, but toward the close 
was assisted by other chapters in the state, who voted at the State Conference of 
March, 1918, to take up this work, inasmuch as the State D. A. R. emergency 
knitting for the Aviation School at Mineola, Long Island, had been brought to a 
close. 

Lucretia Shaw chapter distributed a total of 654 garments, of which approxi- 
mately 509 were contributed by other chapters For items, see table on page 38. 

This chapter also opened the historic Nathan Hale School house as a rest and 
writing room for three summer months for men in service ; and twice in winter, 
serving crullers and hot chocolate. The men showed much appreciation of the 
service rendered and 1,089 visitors registered there. 

Lucretia Shaw Chapter also kept a headquarters for children's war garden 
registration. 

KNITTING FOR AVIATORS. 

Another original work engaged in by every chapter but one as a collective state 
activity was emergency knitting for aviators at the Aviation School at Mineola, 
Long Island, N. Y. 

In August, 1917, the State Regent learned that the aviators at this school were 
receiving no knitted outfits from any organized agency able to supply enough. 
Therefore, in October, the chapter regents assembled at their annual meeting at 
Windsor voted to supply the school with the 600 sets of knitted garments asked 
for by the commanding officer. These sets consisted of six pieces each, namely, 
sweater, helmet, muffler, mittens (trigger) wristlets and socks, a total of 3,600 
garments pledged. A certain quota of sets was assigned to each chapter and the 
yarn was bought in large lots and sold at cost to many of the chapters by a state 
committee of one, Miss Katharine A. Nettleton, of Sarah Riggs Humphreys 
chapter. The finished garments were received, repacked and shipped in aver- 



70 

age lots of fifty to seventy-five sets throughout the winter by Mrs. Clara S. Barse 
of Mary Floyd Tallmadge chapter of Litchfield. 

The total number of garments sent was 3,964, at a reported cost of $4,047.55, 
an amount much less than the actual total spent b)'' the chapters on this work. 
Of this sum over half passed through the hands of the state committee. 

The commanding officer of the School acknowledged these gifts with very ap- 
preciative thanks as being comforts of which his men were "sorely in need." 
Later on, the Red Cross was able to organize its work for Mineola and the Con- 
necticut D. A. R. voted to discontinue its emergency supplies. For items see 
table, page 38. 

KNITTING FOR THE U. S. S. ^CONNECTICUT.'' 

Knitting for the battleship "Connecticut" was the first collective state work 
undertaken by the Connecticut D. A. R. This ship was being outfitted by the 
women of Fairfield county through the Navy League, and many individual Daugh- 
ters were doing their knitting for this ship through that organization. The Con- 
necticut D. A. R. had applied for the privilege of keeping this ship supplied with 
knitted garments for the duration of the war but were too late to secure her. 
They were, however, asked by the commanding officer to supply fifty sets of 
garments of six pieces each or 300 garments. The sets consisted of the usual 
sweaters, helmets, mittens, mufflers, wristlets and socks. A total of 585 was 
sent by the chapters, besides which the Connecticut D. A. R. supplied individually 
about 922 more, making a total of 1,514 garments given to this battleship by the 
Daughters. For items, see table on page 36. 

ORIGINAL POSTER AND WAR POEM. 

A member of Stamford chapter designed a War Savings Stamp poster which 
was accepted by the Government, and a member of Putnam Hill chapter pub- 
lished a war poem entitled "The Battle Cry." 

OFFICIAL D. A. R. ROLL OF HONOR PIN, 

The idea of an official D. A. R. service pin, known as the "Roll of Honor Pin," 
originated with Ruth Wyllys chapter of Hartford, which designed and had one 
made at first for its own members, to be conferred by the chapter upon a mem- 
ber in recognition of her own Government service or of that of a member of her 
immediate family circle. It was later adopted by the State D. A. R. and recom- 
mended by them to the National Society, which likewise adopted it by vote of the 
27th Continental Congress on April nineteenth, 19 18, as expressed in the fol- 
lowing resolution introduced by Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Vice-President 
General from Connecticut : 

"Resolved, that the State D. A. R. roll of honor phi, originated by the Ruth 
Wyllys Chapter of Hartford, Connecticut, shall become the official roll of honor 
pin to be conferred by Chapters on any Daughter of the American Revolution 
who is herself engaged or any member of whose immediate family is engaged in 
ivar service for the United States Government — war service to include armed ser- 
vice and Red Cross nursing at home and abroad and Young Women's Christian 
Association and Young Men's Christian Association service, only abroad." 

Knowing that the question of war service admits of wide application and with- 
out any intention of excluding any worthy war service, the terms of eligibility 
have been limited to those branches specified in the resolution. The true signifi- 
cance of the pin lay in its being the symbol of honor through sacrifice by the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, during the Great War, 



71 

Ruth Wyllys chapter handled the pin for the National Society, through its 
regent, Miss Florence S. M. Crofut, all proceeds over and above expenses going 
to the war work of the National Society. A large number were sold throughout 
the country. 

MILITARY RECORDS. 

Before the National So(5iety, by resolution of the 28th Congress, took up the 
project of preserving the war records of men and women represented on the 
chapter service flags, Mary Clap Wooster chapter of New Haven had entered 
upon the plan of putting into permanent form the detailed records of service of 
the sons of members represented by the stars on its service flag. It began col- 
lecting and preserving extracts from letters describing battles and army and navy 
experiences ; also photographs and the records of ancestors who have in the past 
helped in establishing democracy. A comprehensive questionnaire, modelled on 
that of the Historical Records Committee of the State of Connecticut, was issued 
to all members having a claim, either by personal service, or the service of imme- 
diate relatives, to be included in this record. 

Later, the Connecticut D. A. R. took up the project as a .state work to be pur- 
sued in a uniform way by all the chapters, and when the Congressional resolution 
was passed they adapted Mary Clap Wooster chapter's questionnaire to the 
broader scope of the service to be recorded under the terms of the resolution. 

When the National Board, at its following June meeting, took up the matter of 
putting the Congressional resolution into practice, it found the Connecticut D. 
A. R. questionnaire ready to its hand and suggested its use to other states. This 
questionnaire is, therefore, being adopted as a model throughout the Society 
at the suggestion of the National Board of Management at this meeting. (D. A. 
R. Magazine. August, 191Q, page 507.) 

By means of this questionnaire the military and certain specified forms of non- 
military service records of members and of their sons, fathers, brothers, hus- 
bands, sisters, mothers and daughters are being collected and preserved. 

The questionnaires are filled out in triplicate, one copy to be furnished to the 
Historian General D. A. R. as per the Congressional resolution, one copy to be 
filed in the Connecticut D. A. R. archives at the Ellsworth Homestead in Wind- 
sor ; and the third to be retained by the member's chapter. The work is under 
the management of a state committee of which Miss Florence S. M Crofut is the 
chairman. 

Thus Mary Clap Wooster chapter's history making project has developed into 
large and valuable Vv-ork undertaken by the entire Society. 

It should also be noted in this connection that the Connecticut D. A. R. are 
represented on the Military Records Committee of the State of Connecticut by 
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Vice-President General N. S. D. A. R., and the 
Honorary State Regent and Honorary Vice-President General, Mrs, Sara 
Thomson Kinney. Mrs. Minor was chiefly instrumental in securing the design 
for the handsome lithographed certificate of recognition of servdce issued by the 
State to all Connecticut men in the army, navy and marines. 

The compiler must state in conclusion that this is but an inadequate report of 
all that the Connecticut D. A. R. accomplished during the Great World War. In 
all that they did their aim was "Victory," their watchword was "Carry On." 

Elizabeth Barney Buel, 
(Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel) 

State Regent. 
Litchfield, Connecticut, 
August, 19 19. 






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